As organizations grow and adapt to hybrid, multicloud environments, managing digital identities and access control becomes increasingly complex. A converged IAM platform offers a streamlined solution for modernization, ensuring both security, compliance and efficiency.
Traditional IAM systems face several challenges:
Fragmented Systems and Inefficiencies: Multiple siloed solutions for identity management, access control, and privileged access lead to operational redundancies and inefficiencies.
Security and Compliance Risks: Fragmentation creates security gaps and complicates compliance efforts, increasing the risk of mismanagement and errors across disjointed systems.
Complex Governance Across Environments: Managing identities across on premise, cloud, and hybrid environments is overwhelming without a converged governance platform, making it difficult to gain a comprehensive view.
ObserveID’s converged IAM platform unifies Identity Governance (IGA), Access Management (IAM), and Privileged Access Management (PAM) into a single, integrated system, making identity management simpler and more secure.
Here’s how it helps:
AI-Enabled Enhanced Security and Identity Threat Detection: ObserveID’s Converged Identity Security platform leverages AI to unify all IAM functions within a ‘single pane of glass,’ providing centralized monitoring and alerting. This AI-powered approach enables real time threat detection and response, reducing the risk of breaches and unauthorized access.
AI-Assisted Compliance and Regulatory Alignment: An AI-driven converged platform consolidates multiple audit trails, simplifying user access r eviews and compliance reporting. This automation makes regulatory adherence easier to demonstrate and reduces IT audit preparation time significantly.
Operational Efficiency and Cost Containment: A converged platform enables identity modernization and reduces the need for multiple IAM solutions, greatly reducing licensing, integration, maintenance, and training costs. It simplifies IAM processes and provides reports on actual software license usage, lowering operational overhead.
Scalability and Flexibility: A converged platform is designed to adapt and scale as your businesses grows and easily shift to both hybrid and multi-cloud environments. The platform’s modular software structure and extensive out-of-the-box connector library allows for easy expansion andintegration with new/ legacy applications and technologies.
Enhanced User Experience and Reduced Complexity: A converged platform provides a single interface for managing identities, both Human and non-human, simplifying tasks like user access reviews, certifications, IT audit and privileged access. This streamlines the experience for admins, line managers and end users by allowing efficient secure access to resources.
These combined benefits make ObserveID a robust, flexible, and cost-effective solution for modern identity and access management.
ObserveID’s key features ensure comprehensive identity management, security, and automation across all environments:
Unified Identity Governance: AI-driven unified Identity Governance centralizes lifecycle management, roles, and access reviews, delivering streamlined, audit-ready insights across all identities.
AI-Driven Automation: Automatically detect risks, orphan accounts, and misconfigurations, remediating based on risk levels across your IT ecosystem. Proactively managing these risks prevents unauthorized access, reduces compliance issues, and strengthens your security posture.
Seamless Integration: Connect to on premises, cloud, and legacy systems with low code no code tools.
Real time Monitoring: Proactive anomaly detection and alerts to ensure security across all access points.
Contextual Insights: Provide context-aware decisions for access requests, permissions, and risk management.
Why it matters? Proactively managing these risks prevents unauthorized access, reduces compliance issues, and strengthens your security posture.
Successfully managing access to digital resources is a complex task, especially in today’s hybrid and multicloud environments. Here are key challenges:
Manual Onboarding and Provisioning: Managing human and non-human account access manually can be time-consuming and prone to errors, making compliance difficult.
Lack of Visibility: Limited insight into user and machine identities across the enterprise creates security risks.
Poor Risk Mitigation: Without a holistic approach, operational inefficiencies arise, leading to regulatory compliance issues.
Effective Identity Access Management (IAM) is crucial to balancing security and accessibility in a constantly evolving environment.
ObserveID’s platform simplifies access governance and lifecycle management by eliminating manual inefficiencies. Key benefits include:
Automation: Automate user onboarding with the “birthright role” process for greater efficiency and consistent enterprise access.
User-Friendly Interface: Rich UI with detailed role and entitlement descriptions, improving access requests and reducing errors.
Accountability: Enhanced approval processes and visibility ensure full accountability for every access provisioned. This automation ensures compliance and optimal security for critical systems and data.
Unified View: Gain visibility into on premiseises, hybrid, and multicloud resources with a simple mind map view of identities, resources, and entitlements.
Granular Insights: Get detailed visibility into identities, access policies, entitlements, and activities across your cloud environments.
Account Monitoring: Detect inactive, privileged, shadow, and rogue accounts, with auto-remediation to resolve issues quickly.
Context-Rich Data: Answer critical questions like “who should have access to what,” “when” and “why,” alongside operational details like “where” and “how” the access is being used.
Out-of-the-Box Connectors: Leverage 100s of pre-built connectors to extend access to all cloud resources, down to resource-level permissions (e.g., AWS S3, RDS).
Pluggable Framework: Easily extend integrations with a flexible, plug-in connector framework.
Automated Compliance: Automatically map existing access policies to frameworks like NIST, CIS, and CSA, providing on-demand compliance reports for SOC2, GDPR, and other regulations.
Audit Logging: Every user and system action is logged and mapped to ObserveID’s audit engine, simplifying IAM and IGA audit processes.
Custom Reporting: Access predefined reports with intuitive filters to meet specific audit requirements.
Actionable Insights: Get near real time alerts on access violations, enhancing security and compliance.
Simplified Access Decisions: Use out-of-the-box rules and policies to streamline access management and decision-making processes.
The key industry problems for Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) are:
Fragmented Systems: Disconnected systems make centralized identity governance difficult.
Complex Provisioning/Deprovisioning: Managing access requests and role changes across multiple environments is challenging.
Compliance Pressure: Ensuring continuous auditing and reporting for regulations like GDPR and SOX is tough with siloed tools.
Lack of Automation: Manual processes lead to errors, inefficiencies, and security risks. These challenges make efficient identity governance, security, and compliance difficult to achieve.
ObserveID’s platform simplifies access governance by eliminating manual inefficiencies. Key benefits include:
Automation: Automate compliance access reviews and follow-ups, reducing manual intervention and ensuring efficient, consistent enterprise access.
AI Intelligence with Policies: AI-driven policies help minimize rubberstamping by ensuring access requests are evaluated based on risk, behavior, and organizational policies.
User-Friendly Interface: Rich UI with detailed role and entitlement descriptions, offering audit-ready and self-service filtered reporting to monitor and manage the entire IT ecosystem efficiently.
Accountability: Enhanced approval processes and visibility ensure full accountability for every access provisioned, ensuring compliance and optimal security for critical systems and data.
This comprehensive approach enhances identity governance with automation, AI-driven insights, and robust compliance controls.
Automated Certification: Streamline and automate certification campaigns with AI-driven models, reducing the rubberstamping effect.
Role-Based Certifications: Automate manager, application, owners and auditor certifications for better identity security and compliance.
Managers: Easily review and certify permissions for their teams, ensuring only authorized access.
Application Owners: Control access reviews for their apps, improving security and accountability.
Role Owners: Strengthen RBAC by regularly reviewing and certifying permissions using intuitive tools.
Compliance Made Easy: Automatically map access policies against industry standards like NIST, CIS, and CSA, ensuring alignment with best practices while saving time.
Real-Time Compliance Reports: Gain instant visibility into security posture with out-of-the-box, audit-ready reports.
Custom Reporting: Use intuitive filters to meet specific reporting needs, eliminating reliance on spreadsheets.
Auto Remediation: Fast-track certifications with built-in remediation capabilities, ensuring issues are automatically addressed.
Pre-Defined Rules and Policies: Leverage out-of-the-box rules to streamline access management and decision-making.
Privileged accounts are prime targets for attackers due to their access to sensitive data. Managing and auditing these accounts across on premise and multicloud environments is challenging. Key issues include:
High Risk: Unmanaged privileges are central to critical systems and can lead to severe breaches if compromised.
Complexity: Effective management requires context and automation, which is difficult without full visibility.
Manual Errors: Manually configuring privileged accounts often leads to misconfigurations and inefficiencies.
Lack of Converged Platform: Without a single system to monitor privileged access, configurations, and relationships, costs and risks increase.
The result is poor risk prioritization, inaccurate remediation, and compliance failures.
ObserveID’s PAM solution provides complete visibility and control over privileged accounts. Key features include:
Discovery of Privileged Credentials: Automatically identifies all privileged credentials used by human and non-human identities across your organization.
Centralized Policy Management: Allows teams to set policies for password complexity, rotation, and access control for privileged systems.
Agentless Detection: Automatically detects unmanaged accounts, abnormal behavior, and compromise indicators, enabling risk-driven remediation.
Comprehensive Coverage: Secures privileges for service, application, root, and administrator accounts across on premise, hybrid, and multicloud environments.
Context-Rich Insights: Alerts when risks arise, such as violations of the least-privilege principle.
Secure Remote Access: Provides agentless, password less secure access for remote employees and third-party vendors to the privileged access manager.
This solution enhances security, improves oversight, and ensures compliance across all environments.
Just-in-Time Access: Combine password vaulting and rotation with just-in-time access provisioning for increased security.
Automated Password Rotation: Automatically rotate passwords with built-in approval workflows for locking and unlocking access.
Break-Glass Functionality: Easily manage emergency privileged access with one-click break glass functionality.
Centralized Vault: Securely store privileged credentials in an encrypted, cloud-native vault.
Agentless Connections: Establish secure, isolated connections without agents and record privileged access sessions for audits and compliance.
Out-of-the-Box Integrations: Access a wide range of pre-built integrations with IT and cloud resources, including AWS and Active Directory (AD).
Pluggable Framework: Extend integration easily with a flexible connector framework.
Comprehensive Account Identification: Identify and manage all service, application, admin, and root accounts for a 360-degree view of privileged account usage.
Role-Based Access Control (RBAC): Set up RBAC workflows for access requests and approvals, including third-party access.
Seamless Integration: Launch sessions, set up proxies, and monitor activity with AD and ITSM tools out of the box. ObserveID’s cloud-native PAM solution simplifies privileged access management with enhanced automation, security, and compliance.
ObserveID’s cloud-native PAM solution simplifies privileged access management with enhanced automation, security, and compliance.
Cloud identities pose significant security challenges for organizations. Key issues include:
Security Risks: Cloud identities are essential but create vulnerabilities in every environment.
Monitoring Complexity: Achieving full visibility across hybrid and multicloud environments is difficult without automation.
Unmanaged Identities: Untracked identities like SSH keys or roles hinder comprehensive security.
Manual Configurations: Manually managing cloud identities leads to misconfigurations and inefficiency.
No Converged Platform: Lack of a single platform to manage permissions across clouds increases costs and human error.
These challenges result in poor risk prioritization, inaccurate fixes, and incomplete compliance.
ObserveID unifies identity risks with cloud infrastructure context—like stale identities, misconfigurations, public exposure, and lateral movement signals— to help prioritize risks across multicloud environments.
Monitoring: Monitor all identities, roles, permissions, and policies across AWS, Azure, GCP, and OCI from one platform.
Insights: Receive context-rich insights when least privilege or other security principles are violated.
Instant Access: Get instant answers to key questions like “Who has excessive permissions?” or “Which EC2 instances have access to sensitive data?”
This holistic approach streamlines risk management in complex multicloud environments.
Granular Visibility: Gain detailed insights into identities, configurations, access policies, entitlements, permissions, and activities across all cloud environments.
Multicloud Monitoring: View network access and publicly exposed resources across multiple cloud platforms.
Built-In Security Controls: Leverage out-of-the-box controls for authentication, logging, monitoring, and IAM misconfigurations.
Continuous Intelligence: Continuously collect and analyze cloud feeds, configurations, and identities through a single cloud-native platform.
Agentless Scanning: ObserveID scans unmanaged identities across multicloud environments, detecting exposed keys, passwords in shell history, and other sensitive data attackers could exploit.
Remote Access Discovery: Identifies remote access keys like cloud provider and secure shell SSH keys that attackers might use to gain access to sensitive resources.
Detect: Get real time alerts for unauthorized activities like compromised accounts or stolen access keys.
Investigate: Quickly analyze flagged events to determine if critical assets are compromised.
Respond: Take immediate action using built-in integrations (SOAR, notifications, ITSM tools) for remediation.
Behavior Analytics: ObserveID uses analytics to calculate the most impactful security improvements with minimal policy changes.
Custom Remediation: Implement tailored remediation actions based on your organization’s policies—on-demand or automated.
Guided Recommendations: Easily convert ObserveID’s IAM recommendations into deployable cloud policies, reducing cloud identity risk and enhancing security.
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