User Provisioning

Organizations are looking for ways to provision users so that they can easily know who has access to what, and at the same time offer ways to improve the user experience.

Provisioning tools that enable users to provision themselves – within the bounds of corporate security policy – will be more cost effective. Automated policy enforcement and delegated administration for user provisioning helps maintains security levels while managing large numbers of users. Integrating PKI and other digital IDs with provisioning systems can help to lower total cost of ownership and maintain consistent security policy across users, applications and environments.

Entrust simplifies user provisioning with the following products:

Entrust Authority™ Administration Services
Administration Services is a web-based application that enables delegated and distributed administration of the Entrust Authority™ PKI with end-to-end security by enforcing all administrative transactions to be digitally signed.

Entrust GetAccess™ for Web-based User Provisioning
Entrust GetAccess centrally manages access to multiple applications through a single Internet portal, providing users with single sign-on web authentication to the applications and content they are authorized to see. With the broadest support for user authentication methods, flexible roles and rules-based access control, self-service features, and proven performance to millions of users, Entrust GetAccess enables organizations to reduce administration costs while driving more services through their Web portal.

Integration with Provisioning Systems
Entrust also integrates with provisioning systems using the Entrust Secure Identity Management Solution.

User provisioning helps lower costs:

  • centralized management and user provisioning of different types of users, across multiple environments and in diverse applications, streamlines processes
  • enterprise and Web single sign-on can reduce overall IT Help desk calls
  • unique architecture and tightly integrated components enable rapid deployment, improve project delivery and reduce internal turmoil
  • support for a broad range of applications and systems can reduce the requirement for product customization and additional hardware costs
  • identity management for a broad range of client-server, Web and Web services transactions enables use beyond the enterprise and helps future-proof the investment

Improve legislative and corporate governance compliance:

  • centralized user provisioning, identity management and policy enforcement reduces the risks of unauthorized users or applications receiving inappropriate access to specific resources
  • strong authentication across client-server, Web, and Web services environments identifies the user, device or application, helping increase confidence in the security of sensitive information
  • secure audit and workflow capabilities detail business approval processes and highlight managers who are accountable for these approvals
  • flexible architecture enables organizations to easily add incremental security to further enhance information privacy and access controls

Improve service levels:

  • automated identity creation and user provisioning results in faster end-user enablement
  • user self-service features reduce the need to engage the Help desk for user provisioning, and can thereby save time and improve productivity
  • new applications can be rapidly deployed to all authorized users, helping to minimize downtime
  • personalized access to information enriches the user experience by providing a view of information and resources that are available to that user

Read this White Paper: Opening the Door To e-Business: Balancing Return and Risk with Secure Identity Management.