When faced with multiple passwords, employees forget them, write them down – or simply don’t use important applications. This endangers security and reduces user productivity.
Enterprise SSO replaces all passwords with one authentication method. Users access their applications immediately – but only if they are authorized to do so. This means that employees naturally comply with your security policy.
Enterprise SSO puts you in command of your access policy. From a central console, you enforce rules on who can use what, and from which PC. Access attempts are logged centrally for compliance audit.
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Four reasons to use Enterprise SSO
1 - Ensure always-on IT access
Your servers and network may be running smoothly. But if a user forgets a password, your IT becomes unavailable to him or her.
Enterprise SSO streamlines user access during everyday use – but also when things go wrong. And in real life they do: users lose their smart card, can’t reach the help desk to reset a password or need to access the accounts of a colleague who went on leave.
In these situations, Enterprise SSO keeps users productive via secure emergency access. Employees don’t have to contact the help desk to be unlocked – in fact, they don’t even need network access.
2 - Reduce help desk workload
Your help desk devotes a significant amount of time to solving password issues. This issue becomes intractable as more and more password-protected systems are added to the mix.
With Enterprise SSO, all those easily forgettable passwords are replaced by one single authentication method. And users who lose it can recover access without help desk intervention. This translates directly into lighter help desk workload.
3 - Simplify compliance
Are compliance efforts consuming your time and budget? Enterprise SSO is a simple, centralized way to enforce your control procedures regarding information access.
Enterprise SSO protects confidentiality by unobtrusively restricting application authorization. It lets you ensure information integrity by granting and removing access according to user role.
Audits are completed quickly, as all information on access rights and attempts resides in one place. And when you need to update your controls, you do so from a single console – wherever the protected data resides.
4 - Build a foundation for identity and access management
User provisioning, strong authentication, role-based access control... Enterprise SSO is an excellent first step to global IT security.
Once Enterprise SSO is installed, it automatically gathers data on which application accounts are used, and by whom. You can then design an access policy based on actual usage information.
Evidian IAM Suite lets you reconcile the accounts in your applications with Enterprise SSO usage information and your access policy. You can thus eliminate obsolete accounts, and keep your policy up-to-date.
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