Introduction Provisioning With IdentityIQ 

The need for Identity and Access Management (IAM) arises from the requirement to secure and control access to resources and systems while ensuring regulatory compliance, improving efficiency and productivity, and mitigating security risks. The great way to secure the system and data is controlling and granting access based on user’s job functions. Provisioning is the effective way to controlling access. By automate the process of provisioning may prevent from risk of manual errors. The primary objective of provisioning is to prevent unauthorized access of sensitive information. 

Provisioning

Provisioning in Sailpoint IdentityIQ is used to automate the process of granting access to resources and systems, as well as revoking access when necessary. It helps to ensure that users have the correct level of access to perform their job functions, and that access is removed in a timely manner when users leave the organization or their job responsibilities change.

Provisioning helps to maintain the security and compliance of an organization’s IT systems and data, as well as streamlining the access management process and reducing manual effort.

Provisioning is the key component of IdentityIQ. It refers to the process of automating the process of creating, updating and removing user account (or) system access entitlements and roles. Provisioning is performed through workflows and automated processes. IdentityIQ provides all-inclusive provisioning solutions and features such as onboarding users, policy driven provisioning, and role based access control. The main goal of provisioning is to ensure that everyone are having the appropriate access for their job functions and also prevent unauthorized access. Provisioning is used to synchronize user data across multiple systems and keep it up to date. 

Types of provisioning:  

• Manual Driven provisioning 

-          Requesting Access Through Quicklinks > Automatic Driven Provisioning 

-          Provisioning happens via Role assignment, Attribute Synchronization or Lifecycle event.

Manual Driven provisioning

Manual Provisioning refers to the process of creating, modifying and managing user accounts and permissions manually without using automate processes. Manual provisioning is used when organizations choose to implement manual process for security or compliance reasons. This process generally involves a manual review of requests, creation and modification of user accounts in target systems or applications, and assignment of permissions based on the user’s roles and responsibilities. Submittal of access request initiates the workflow to complete the process. 

Automatic Driven provisioning 

Automated provisioning refers to the process of automatically creating, modifying and managing user accounts and permissions based on the predefined rules and workflows in target system or applications. The process can be triggered by life cycle events (J/L/M) such as the approval of a new hire, department change, and termination of employee. To communicate with the target systems and applications Sailpoint uses Connectors and it can automate the process of provisioning and deprovisioning user account and entitlements. Automated provisioning helps to reduce the risk of manual errors. 

Importance of Workflow in Provisioning

Workflow plays a crucial role in provisioning by providing a structured and automated process of creating, updating and managing user accounts and accesses in Sailpoint IIQ. Workflows can also be used to enforce conditions and perform validations, such as checking that a user’s role and permissions are consistent with their job functions, or ensuring that all mandatory approvals have been obtained before provisioning is performed. In Sailpoint IIQ, workflows can be customized to meet the specific needs of an organization, and can be designed to integrate with existing workflows. It helps organizations to improve the efficiency of their provisioning process and reduce the risk of errors. 

Importance of provisioning

• Provisioning helps organizations to prevent confidential information from un-authorized access by controlling who has access to what resources and when.

• Provisioning is an important aspects of identity and access management. It helps organizations to manage user access to their IT systems and applications. 

• One of the most important benefits of provisioning in Sailpoint IIQ is improved security. 

• Provisioning helps organizations to ensure that user access to IT systems and applications is compliant with regulatory requirements and internal security policies. 

• Provisioning helps to reduce the risk of human error by automating the granting and revoking access process to IT systems and applications. 

• Another key benefit of provisioning is improved efficiency. Sailpoint IIQ reduces the time and efforts required to grant and/ or revoke access by automating the provisioning processes. 

• Request can be processed rapidly and accurately, without the need of human intervention.

Provisioning Best Practices

• Role based Provisioning is best when we need to provision large number of access for single or multiple users. We can prevent provisioning wrong access.

• Always enable SOD policies to prevent conflicts of access and reduce the risk.

Conclusion

Identity and Access Management (IAM) is necessary to protect and manage user access to systems and resources while maintaining legal compliance, boosting output and efficiency, and reducing security threats. Based on a user’s job functions, access should be controlled and granted in a wonderful method to protect the system and data. Access control can be effectively achieved by provisioning. Automating the provisioning process can reduce the possibility of human error. Safeguarding confidential data against unwanted access is the main goal of provisioning.