Managing User Access Is a Crucial Step in Securing Federal Organizations

Managing User Access Is a Crucial Step in Securing Federal Organizations

In addition to the health concerns dominating headlines, we’ve also seen first-hand the major domino effects the coronavirus pandemic has had on our economy, businesses and the workforce. 


Federal agencies had to quickly pivot to new ways of operating under various localities' stay-at-home orders, new remote work arrangements and other employees in limbo. Pandemic or not, organizations also figuring out how to deal with employees leaving, while others—in order to fulfill new and unforeseen demands—are experiencing an urgent need to rapidly hire and shift responsibilities. In such instances, there’s a crucial step that must be taken to ensure the safety of the organization: provisioning and deprovisioning user access.


Why It’s Essential to Properly Manage Access 


In today’s modern workplace the number of applications required for employees to effectively do their jobs has grown exponentially. This makes granting and revoking access to appropriate systems a critical need for federal organizations and departments of all sizes. 


When employees leave or join the organization for any reason, it’s crucial that IT teams provision/deprovision their access to all corporate systems effectively to ensure there are no security holes to important systems and corporate information. When new employees join a team, it’s crucial they are only granted access to applications that they should be provisioned for, so that they cannot access corporate systems not required for their specific role. Similarly, IT teams must deprovision employee access if a team member leaves, otherwise the organization becomes more vulnerable to insider threats.


How an Identity Governance Solution Can Help


Managing user access can be extremely difficult without the right programs in place. However, identity governance solutions are simplifying the process. Leveraging an identity program, federal organizations and d ..

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