The security landscape has evolved, and new threats have emerged for organizations. Security teams need to do more with their systems to keep their employees, assets and buildings secure. To provide a more secure environment, security directors must transition from controlling access to doors and buildings to managing the identities that walk through those doors. Using a policy-based identity management platform, organizations can manage access via the different categories of identities (people) that enter a building. Identity access management ties systems together to manage the different identities (employees, contractors, vendors, visitors), rather than manage systems.
A large employee population generates a complex identity environment to manage. Employees change jobs, move from part- to full-time, contractor to employee or from one department to another, creating a complicated and ever changing environment for managing access.