IDENTITY MANAGEMENT: PROTECTING FROM THE INSIDE OUT MICHAEL FORNAL, SECURITY ANALYST PROVIDENCE HEALTH & SERVICES SOURCE SEATTLE CONFERENCE

Providence Health & Services  Very large Catholic healthcare system  33 hospitals in AK, CA, MT, OR, WA  65,000 employees

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Topics of Discussion  Why IDM needs to be a business need and not IT.  What can an IDM program do for your company.  How having an IDM program can help you to stay resilient.

What is Identity Management  In short it’s the ability to provide provisioning and governance of users within your environment. This includes:  Password Management  Access Requests  Policy Enforcement

Why IDM is a business need and not an IT need.  Ensures that governance of access is being done correctly.  Reduces risk to the company.  Satisfy compliance and privacy requirements.  Provides a cost saving measure by providing an efficient process for user provisioning.

What IDM can do for your company  Management of employee life cycle from beginning to end.  Provides an overall view of how effective your policies are.  Centralize authentication and authorization of applications across an enterprise.  Gives greater transparency into who has access to what.  Reduce the fears that Executives and IT Managers have around Identity and Access Governance.

Management of employee life cycle  Add an employee  Move an employee  Employee leaves

Provides an overall view of how effective your polices are by:  Providing reports that show employee violations of polices.  Showing you where there could be potential conflicts with a role or group that could limit an employee’s productivity.

Centralize authentication and authorization of applications across an enterprise  Provides accountability  Allows for the burden of account management to be taken off a department like applications support.  One piece of software can control access to all applications in an enterprise reducing redundancy.

Allows for greater transparency  Gives a high level of who has access and to what based on role or group.  Shows who your super users are and where your areas of high risk are.

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Reduce managements fears around Identity and Access Governance  Executives fear that account management is being done incorrectly.  IT Managers fear for integrity of their data and applications.  Providing leadership with tangible results that allow them the necessary transparency to see that the IAM program is working.

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How you can improve your security program with an IAM tool :  Allows for better creation of company security polices.  Used as a provisioning tool allows for better management of employee life cycle.  Reduce your attack surfaces.

Allows for better creation of company security polices by:  Where to use least privilege and where not to use.  Performing audits and reports.  Giving you the information that you need to make better informed decisions.

Used as a provisioning tool allows for better management of employee life cycle Setup everything from:  Password Management  Application Access  Closing of Accounts

Reduction in attack surface.  Able to clean up old accounts that could be used to access sensitive information.  Mitigates the insider threat especially in a dynamic environment  High privilege accounts can be monitored  Reduces the risk of super user accounts being created by having it approved by another dept.

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Today’s Takeaways  An IDM tool in your enterprise gives you the benefits of a detective tool and a prevention tool.  IDM needs to be a cornerstone of a security program without it everything else will break down.  Gives the business confidence that process of governance and access is being monitored and performed correctly.

Thank you! Thanks for attending my talk today on Identity Management: Protecting from the inside out Questions…?

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