Introduction
IdentityNow simplifies Identity Governance. From day one, it allows you to automate and control user provisioning, access requests, separation of duties policies, and access certification for auditors.
IdentityNow simplifies Identity Governance. From day one, it allows you to automate and control user provisioning, access requests, separation of duties policies, and access certification for auditors.
Identity Governance Benefits:
1.Strengthen security and lower the risk.
2.Deliver fast and efficient access to organization
3.Improve compliance and audit performance
4.Reduce Operational costs
1.Strengthen security and lower the risk.
2.Deliver fast and efficient access to organization
3.Improve compliance and audit performance
4.Reduce Operational costs
IdentityNow Modules:
1.Access Certifications
At the highest level, access certification takes a user's set of assigned access and presents that data to an authority such as their manager or a source owner who then reviews the access to verify that it is correct. The authority can approve access, revoke access, or reassign approval to another authority.
2.Access requests and approvals
An Access Request is an interactive process of asking for a specific role, access profile, or entitlement.
For each access profile requested, approval may be needed. This is determined when an access profile is defined. You can choose to require approval, select approvers, or arrange a sequence of multiple approvers before the access is granted.
3.Automated Provisioning
Provisioning is the process of granting, changing, or removing user access to systems, applications, and databases based on a unique user identity.
5.Password Management
IdentityNow Additional Modules:
6.Saas management
7.Recommendations
8.Access Modelling
9.Access Insights
10.Cloud Access Management
11.File Access Management
12.Access Risk Management
1.Access Certifications
At the highest level, access certification takes a user's set of assigned access and presents that data to an authority such as their manager or a source owner who then reviews the access to verify that it is correct. The authority can approve access, revoke access, or reassign approval to another authority.
2.Access requests and approvals
An Access Request is an interactive process of asking for a specific role, access profile, or entitlement.
For each access profile requested, approval may be needed. This is determined when an access profile is defined. You can choose to require approval, select approvers, or arrange a sequence of multiple approvers before the access is granted.
3.Automated Provisioning
Provisioning is the process of granting, changing, or removing user access to systems, applications, and databases based on a unique user identity.
- Trigger Provisioning
- IdentityNow packages the request into a plan that describes all the data and the operations to be performed so that it can communicate these changes across all systems.
- IdentityNow sends the request for fulfilment directly, for connected sources, or by notification to an external ticketing system, or to an individual to manually fulfill the request.
- After the request has been fulfilled, the data is re-aggregated and the requested changes verified.
5.Password Management
IdentityNow Additional Modules:
6.Saas management
7.Recommendations
8.Access Modelling
9.Access Insights
10.Cloud Access Management
11.File Access Management
12.Access Risk Management
Access Model Components
Entitlements
Access Profiles
Roles
Lifecycle States
Entitlements
Access Profiles
Roles
Lifecycle States
IdentityNow Incorporates a Multi-tenant Architecture
IdentityNow is built from the ground up using microservices. As a multi-tenant SaaS architecture, IdentityNow requires minimal infrastructure overhead. You can securely deploy and administer identity services from our SailPoint Identity Security Cloud platform.
IdentityNow features:
Logging
Monitoring
Alerting
Scalability
Search
Seperation of Duties
Password Management
Access Review
Provisioning
Access Request
Three Major Components of IdentityNow Architechure
1.IdentityNow cloud- UI and REST API(Microservices)
2.Backend foundational services- Deployment, Notification, Alert, Monitoring, Logging
3.On premises component called virtual Appliance- Enterprise connectors, Custom connectors(cloud connector gateway)
IdentityNow is built from the ground up using microservices. As a multi-tenant SaaS architecture, IdentityNow requires minimal infrastructure overhead. You can securely deploy and administer identity services from our SailPoint Identity Security Cloud platform.
IdentityNow features:
Logging
Monitoring
Alerting
Scalability
Search
Seperation of Duties
Password Management
Access Review
Provisioning
Access Request
Three Major Components of IdentityNow Architechure
1.IdentityNow cloud- UI and REST API(Microservices)
2.Backend foundational services- Deployment, Notification, Alert, Monitoring, Logging
3.On premises component called virtual Appliance- Enterprise connectors, Custom connectors(cloud connector gateway)
Passwords in Provisioning
When IdentityNow creates new accounts in provisioning operations, those accounts often need an initial password value. Since IdentityNow never sends out passwords through email, how do users receive the password? There are three IdentityNow options for handling provisioning of passwords for new source accounts.
1. Static Password. In the source, you create an account profile and define the password that will be used for new account creation. This is simply a text value that is used for all accounts created on the source system. As such, we suggest that you change your static password frequently, such as monthly, and require users to change their password upon first login.
2. Dynamic Password. You create a password based on known information and known by the identity by pulling values from one or more identity attributes into the password. For example, you could use a users' employee number as their initial password. As with the static password, users should be required to change their password upon first login.
3 Dynamic Unknown Password. The initial password is randomly generated by IdentityNow which allows the account to be created. Then, the user can log into IdentityNow and change their password on that system. In the case where the account is being created on the system which manages user access to IdentityNow (pass-through authentication), the user would not be able to log into IdentityNow to initiate the password change. In this instance, they can use the forgot password option to authenticate and change their password.
Assignment to Identities
Lifecycle States have two modes describing how the identity is moved into the state.
Automatic mode is based on the attribute as aggregated from the authoritative source associated with this Identity Profile. The source defines the value for each identity, and the identity is automatically moved to a new state during aggregation by updating the Lifecycle State identity attribute.
Manual Mode Manual mode can be used to set the value for an identity. It is done by directly editing a user lifecycle state attribute. If a user lifecycle state changes because an admin manually selects it, the method changes to manual. The manual setting is applicable as long as the underlying value on the source does not change. As soon as the value on the source changes, the lifecycle state field gets reset to an automatic value.
Access Profile Request
There are three steps to make an access profile requestable.
Define an Application
In IdentityNow an Application is what a user interacts with to request access at the access profile level. Every Application is related to and can directly represent a source. It can also represent specific access on a source.
Configure Access Profile approval requirements
You need to define Access Profile approval requirements for each Access Profile you want to make requestable. Not all access profiles need to be available for requests, so it is a good idea to be selective. Required approvers can be a person or group.
Associate Access Profiles to applications
Access profiles are attached to the application so that when a user requests the application they will see the associated Access Profiles. Access Profiles have to be attached to an application to be requested.
Access Profiles Request
In IdentityNow, an Application is what a user interacts with to request access. Each of the items under Request Access in Request Center represents an Application. An Application is related to a source. It can directly represent a source, or it can represent specific access on a source, depending on how your organization has come to know or represent that access to users.
How does Search work in IdentityNow
There are six searchable objects in IdentityNow Search. A default Search searches all object types. You can also filter your search to display only specific objects such as Identities, Roles, Access Profiles, Entitlements, Events, or Account Activity.
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