By Alan Radford, Global Identity and Access Management Strategist at One Identity, and Andreas Muller, IT Project Manager at B. Braun
According to Gartner, converged Identity & Access Management (IAM) platforms will be the preferred adoption method for Access Management (AM), Identity Governance & Administration (IGA) and Privileged Access Management (PAM) in over 70% of new deployments by 2025, driven by more comprehensive risk mitigation requirements. These predictions are well understood by One Identity, recently positioned as a Leader in the 2022 Gartner Magic Quadrant for PAM.
One Identity’s Alan Radford and Andreas Muller of B. Braun came together with other authentication professionals to discuss how to get ahead of this issue.
The Challenges: Managing size, complexity and diversity
B. Braun is a German medical and pharmaceutical device company, working across 60+ countries, with the help of over 60,000 staff. According to Muller, “Our main challenge, from a technical perspective, is consolidation across teams. We are working across several disparate geographies and teams with different owners. All these teams need to pull together in the same direction.”
This structural complexity is further compounded by the strict restrictions in place on medical manufacturing, which needs to be supported by security and Identity & Access Management policies. Restricting access to the data hosted on the B. Braun servers is crucial to ensure it remains compliant.
B. Braun needed a more effective way to manage user accounts and protect data. Andreas Mueller, IT project manager at B. Braun, says, “We had too many manual processes, which increased the time to create or delete a user account. Overall, there was too much risk of unauthorized data access and, therefore, a failure to comply with data se ..
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