| | December 20206CIOReviewIn the complicated, tangled web of managing user rights, permissions and accounts, keeping track of who has access to different resources can seem nearly impossible. Organizations today are facing increasing demands, mandates, and compliance regulations as they manage access and support countless devices and systems that contain data critical to the organization. Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) solutions have provided the capability to create and manage user accounts, roles, and access rights for individual users in an organization. This means companies can more easily oversee user provisioning, password management, policy management, access governance, and identity repositories.When it comes to managing access within the organization, the Cybersecurity Insiders report found that 70 percent of users have more access privileges than required for their job. This typically results from bulk approvals for access requests, frequent changes in roles or departments, and not periodically reviewing user access. Additionally, the lack of staff and suitable processes and solutions also contributes to excessive privileges across the organization. Too much access privilege and overprovisioning can open an organization up to insider threats and magnify risk throughout the business.IGA is a key element of any organisation's IAM architecture, covering identity lifecycle management and access governance. IGA is essentially the ability to reduce the risk that comes with excessive or unnecessary user access to applications, systems and data. This is achieved by enabling policy-based centralised orchestration of user identity management and access control, and by working with other IAM processes to automate workflows and meet compliance requirements.In light of the fact that IGA projects are prone to several common risks and pitfalls that can potentially lead to failure, it is important to identify these risks at the outset. This enables the business to make risk-based decisions to address them before embarking on individual projects and thereby avoid failure. By setting up an identity fabric, organisations are more likely to meet the demands of digital transformation initiatives quickly, while at the same time enabling a gradual migration of legacy identity management systems to the new identity-as-a-service paradigm.Let us know your thoughts.EditorialModernization is the Way Ahead for Identity Governance and Administration Copyright © 2020 ValleyMedia, Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or part of any text, photography or illustrations without written permission from the publisher is prohibited. The publisher assumes no responsibility for unsolicited manuscripts, photographs or illustrations. Views and opinions expressed in this publication are not necessarily those of the magazine and accordingly, no liability is assumed by the publisher thereof.CIOReviewEmail:sales@cioreview.comeditor@cioreview.commarketing@cioreview.com December - 28, 2020, Vol 09, Issue - 110 (ISSN 2644-237X) Published by ValleyMedia, Inc.To subscribe to CIOReviewVisit www.cioreview.com CIOReviewEditorial StaffAaron PierceCarolynn WaltersShirley FaithRussell ThomasVisualizersIssac GeorgeJaxon Jase*Some of the Insights are based on the interviews with respective CIOs and CXOs to our editorial staffJustin Smith Managing Editoreditor@cioreview.comManaging EditorJustin SmithSalesStephen Thomasstephen.thomas@cioreview.com Dean Winchester
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