Advisory Note: Access Governance Architectures - 71039

Access Governance is about the management of access controls in IT systems and thus about mitigating access-related risks. These risks include the theft of information, fraud through changes to information, and the subversion of IT systems - for example in banking - to facilitate illegal actions, to name just a few. The large number of prominent incidents within the last few years proves the need to address these issues – in all industries. There are an increasing number of tools for Access Governance. On the one hand, a number of start-ups have entered the market with specific solutions for Access Governance. Some of them have already become established players, while others were acquired by more established software vendors. On the other hand, existing provisioning products have been enhanced or complemented with specific Access Governance functionality by their vendors...