Eviden DirX Identity

Identity & Access Management (IAM) is central to protecting digital corporate assets by managing identities, user accounts, and access entitlements across diverse systems and applications. IAM is becoming harder to run as organizations undergo digital transformation, adopt more agile and centralized IT models, expand service variety, shift to cloud applications, and embark on Zero Trust initiatives. These changes introduce new identity types and increase hybrid complexity, while survey data indicates only slightly more than one third of organizations have comprehensive IAM coverage across all major areas.

The erosion of a clear “internal vs. external” perimeter—driven by mobile work, partner/customer integration, and cloud usage—raises the security stakes. Digital assets and intellectual property have grown in value, and connected environments (including smart manufacturing) turn digital systems into “crown jewels” even for traditional industries. In this context, well-executed IAM reduces attack surface through least privilege, automates identity processes, and enables regular reviews to detect and remove excessive access. IAM is also a business enabler, streamlining onboarding, access changes, and timely deprovisioning when access is no longer required.

Within IAM, Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) combines Identity Provisioning with Access Governance, adding entitlement analysis, recertification, and access request workflows that bridge business approvals with technical entitlements, including Segregation of Duties (SoD) controls. Eviden (an Atos business) offers DirX Identity, a long-established product evolved into a comprehensive IGA solution (release 8.10), complemented by DirX Audit and DirX Directory. Recent enhancements include expanded authentication and request handling in the business UI, broader REST services with Swagger testing, improved LDAP locking and performance controls, expanded connector capabilities (including Office 365 workflow extensions), and new real-time provisioning integrations. DirX Identity is positioned as mature and comprehensive, with strengths in connector depth (notably SAP and vertical applications), meta-directory-based identity data management, high availability, and strong role/policy/attribute-based access control—while facing challenges around TCL scripting in high-load bulk scenarios and a relatively small partner ecosystem.

• IAM manages identities, user accounts, and access entitlements across systems and applications.
• IAM complexity is increasing due to digital transformation, cloud adoption, and more agile enterprise landscapes.
• Just over one third of surveyed organizations are equipped with all major areas for a comprehensive IAM solution.
• IGA consists of two core elements: Identity Provisioning and Access Governance.
• Identity Provisioning automates creating and managing user accounts and high-level entitlements across multiple systems.
• Access Governance includes entitlement analysis, regular reviews and recertification, and access request workflows.
• DirX Identity release 8.10 is described as delivering coverage across all major IGA feature areas.
• DirX Identity is complemented by DirX Audit for Access Analytics & Intelligence and DirX Directory for directory services.
• DirX Identity provides RBAC and also supports PBAC and ABAC through rule-based entitlement management.
• DirX Identity supports SoD controls defined via policies and enforced during assignments of roles, groups, or entitlements.

• “IAM (Identity & Access Management) remains at the core of enterprise IT infrastructures when it comes to protecting digital corporate assets.”
• “IAM thus reduces the attack surface by helping organizations move towards the ‘least privilege’ principle.”
• “Protecting against internal and external threats requires a well-thought-out understanding of risks and countermeasures.”
• “Creating that interface well, from the definition to the ongoing management and reviews of entitlements, is challenging.”
• “Enabling and protecting the Digital Transformation requires IGA.”
• “From the beginning, many of the largest European organizations are running DirX Identity as their central Identity Management backbone.”
• “DirX Identity comes across as a process driven and integrated solution for identity governance and provisioning.”
• “A specific strength is the support of parameterization of roles.”
• “Such integration is the recommended best practice for setting up IGA solutions.”
• “The DirX suite is ideal for customers committed to European IT sovereignty…”