With the constant IT landscape transformation, Identity and Access Management services have become an important part of IT planning and strategy. Businesses now need to protect their valuable assets and as threats continue to evolve, Identity and Access Management controls also need to be in place to prevent such malicious attacks. With the right Access Management tools, IT can authorize access and grant the necessary privileges to both internal and external users. With IBM Identity Governance and Intelligence (IGI), these obstacles are overcome with an up-to-date platform comprising of effective and reliable Identity and Access Management services.
IBM Identity Governance and Intelligence (IGI) is an IT security application software that delivers a business-centric approach to Identity Governance and Administration. It helps customers maintain strong control over user access to applications and carefully monitor how entitlements align with business roles and responsibilities. IBM IGI empowers business and IT to work together to meet regulatory compliance and security goals across enterprise applications and data.
In the bid to meet the challenges of today’s world, competitive companies have a need to increase their business agility in a secure environment and need to enforce the performance of their IT infrastructure. With the development of e-business, enterprises now require new methods to manage secure access to information and applications across multiple systems, delivering online services to employees, customers, and suppliers without compromising security.
Companies must be able to trust the identities of users requiring access and easily administer user identities in a cost-effective way. With this in mind, it is important to examine the many reasons why organizations embark on IAM projects which include improving regulatory compliance, to reduce information security risk, to reduce IT operating and development costs, to improved operating efficiencies and transparency, to improve user satisfaction, to increase the effectiveness of key business initiatives.
In Nigeria, ActivEdge Technologies an IBM silver business partner possesses the technical know-how to provide innovative solutions that improves efficiency and effectiveness that empower businesses to achieve more, took the giant stride forward towards being the first information technology company in the country to successfully deliver an IAM project in the financial services sector to advance productivity, with a system that optimally delivers quality support for solutions that empowers businesses to derive maximum value and deliver value to its customers. ActivEdge Technologies have strategically trailblazed in the successful deployment of IAM projects to stay ahead of the competition in the Nigerian IT market.