IdentityIQ Role Manager

Overview

Align Access Privileges with Business Roles
IdentityIQ Role Manager provides a solution for defining the roles that support critical business processes and managing the lifecycle of each role - from creation and modification to approval and, when necessary, retirement. Taking a flexible, yet pragmatic approach to role creation, Role Manager supports both top-down and bottom-up role mining. Role Manager reduces the time it takes to define roles by automating the process of grouping fine-grained entitlements into technical IT roles. It facilitates the assignment of users into business roles and ensures conformance to policy through continuous monitoring and audit of user privileges. IdentityIQ Role Manager includes the following key capabilities:

• Role Creation – Automates and simplifies definition of the role model
• Role Lifecycle Management – Manages role changes with greater efficiency and accuracy
• Role Assignment – Assigns users to roles in a policy-controlled environment

Benefits

With IdentityIQ Role Manager, enterprises can:

• Reduce complexity and simplify the administration of user access rights
• Enforce and verify role-based access policy across enterprise applications
• Streamline and simplify compliance and audit processes
• Improve collaboration across business, IT and audit/compliance teams
• Detect and prevent inappropriate access to reduce business risk

Resources

• SailPoint IdentityIQ Product Overview – A high-level introduction to SailPoint IdentityIQ, an innovative identity governance solution that delivers risk-aware compliance management, adaptive role management, access request management and identity intelligence.
• IdentityIQ Role Manager Data Sheet – Offers a complete view into the benefits, key capabilities and features supported by the role management component of SailPoint IdentityIQ including role creation, role lifecycle management and role assignment.
• Viewpoints: Role Management and Risk – This educational paper reviews how effective role management can provide the business context necessary for non-technical personnel to oversee and verify user access policy. It reviews three ways that role management helps organizations to manage information security risk and ultimately corporate risk.
• Best Practices: Practical Role Management – This paper identifies common pitfalls on the road to role management and which best practices can pave the way to solving real business problems.
• Role of Roles in Compliance Podcast – Jackie Gilbert, VP of Marketing and Founder, interviews Darran Rolls, CTO for SailPoint, on the subject of role-based access control (RBAC), and its relevance to identity management and compliance projects. Darran tackles the controversial topic concerning the difference in roles for provisioning and roles for compliance and where they can, ultimately, come together.
• Why Enterprises Need More Roles – SailPoint speaks with Forrester Research Senior Analyst, Andras Cser, to discuss the growing importance of enterprise role management. Cser, a leading expert on identity management, explains why role management is becoming increasingly strategic to organizations as business users become more involved in identity governance, particularly during the recent economic turmoil. He also provides recommendations for companies considering an enterprise role management project.

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