Courion Corporation

In contrast, traditional Access Governance commonly runs recertification campaigns once a year. Even when it relies on risks, recertification will be done only every few months, even for high risk items. That might be too late. Even three months can be a long time for abusing entitlements. Adding Access Intelligence for regular checks of high risk items allows identifying anomalies and changes, far more frequent then with recertification campaigns only.

This webinar will look at various aspects of Access Intelligence:

• What is Access Intelligence?
• Scheduled recertification vs. risk-based recertification
• Extending your Access Governance – beyond standard recertification
• The Access Governance/Intelligence organization as part of the IAM and Information Security organization
• Realtime Security Intelligence and Access Intelligence
• Customer use cases/success stories for Access Intelligence

In the first part of the webinar, Matthias Reinwarth, Senior Analyst at KuppingerCole, will define Access Intelligence. He will put it into context of both Access Governance and Realtime Security Intelligence. Following that, he will focus on where to place Access Intelligence in the organization and who will and should use that capability – only IT or also the end users?

In the second part, Mr. Kurt Johnson Vice President of Corporate Development at Courion will talk about the various approaches for recertification such as scheduled and risk-based and which one to use when. He also will talk about why and how to go beyond standard Access Governance and recertification now. He then will focus on the benefits of Access Intelligence and discuss these based on customer use cases and success stories.

In this webinar Martin Kuppinger of KuppingerCole will look at the broadening range of cyber-attacks and the risk associated with user identities and access. He will discuss the importance of organizations to broaden their management beyond traditional provisioning and governance with identity intelligence and analytics.  Martin will discuss what this means and how organizations can better prepare themselves to take advantage of emerging technologies in this area.

In addition, Kurt Johnson of Courion will dive into detail on identity and access intelligence and explore how organizations can effectively implement an intelligence focused strategy to better identify risk and vulnerabilities, while improving traditional preventive and detective controls. It will show how identity intelligence and analytics can scan and evaluate your IT infrastructure for risk within hours, categorize and prioritize these risks, and create a comprehensive remediation plan. Access Insight simplifies the complex, providing immediate baseline value including:

• Orphan accounts: accounts that are not associated with a valid business owner and do not have proper oversight and governance.
• Abandoned accounts: accounts that have been inactive for a time period that exceeds policy
• Privileged accounts: accounts with increased levels of permission that provide elevated access to critical networks, systems, applications or transactions.
• Unnecessary entitlements: excessive privileges that exist within the system

Once upon a time we all preached that IAM projects should be done piecemeal, and should involve “best of breed” solutions. Forward looking enterprises took that advice, but they’re now faced with the somewhat daunting task of updating their IAM portfolio while rationalizing the installation and attempting to insure that all of the parts function together smoothly and flawlessly.

Your organization must decide – should you try to refurbish the apps and services you have or should you map out a plan to replace them all. And if you want to replace them, should you stick to best of breed (if that’s even applicable any more) or should you choose the vendor that’s the best fit for you, then fill out their line with the parts they recommend from third parties.

Join Kuppinger-Cole Senior Analyst Dave Kearns, Courion’s Dave Fowler and more experts, as they explore what’s new in IAM and what’s best for your organization.