Strengthen IAM compliance
IAM compliance refers to adherence to guidelines, standards and legal requirements in the area of Identity and Access Management (IAM). This includes ensuring that the IAM system and the associated processes comply with internal company guidelines as well as external regulations and best practices.
IAM compliance typically involves implementing security policies, monitoring access authorizations, managing user identities and logging access activities to ensure the security and integrity of systems and data.
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IAM and Compliance
Identity management allows you to manage your users and authorizations within your IT landscape. Particularly if you operate an identity management system in which key users and users from the specialist departments are responsible for authorization management rather than a higher-level IT administration, preparatory work is required. Although all guidelines and requirements can be implemented using a suitable software solution, all guidelines and authorizations must be systematically recorded and written down in an IT compliance concept before the technical solution is implemented in order to guarantee correct implementation.
IT compliance concept
IT compliance, as part of your IT governance, helps you to structure all data processing and define legally compliant guidelines. Some essential building blocks allow you to systematically set up IT compliance for your organization and answer important questions in your organization:
- What data is available?
- Which data is relevant to data protection?
- Which data must be retained?
- Where are specific types of data stored?
- Who may have access to the data types or data containers?
- Who may authorize access to the data?
- How is data protected?
- What is the purpose of the data?
- What security settings are required for the devices and software solutions?
- How is the handling of data, passwords and computers by users regulated?
- What behavior is expected from users when handling data, suspected attacks and data leaks, data access and data security?
- Which processes access data and how is it processed?
- Which data must be deleted or anonymized and when due to data protection?
- Who ensures these processes and how can some of these tasks be automated?
Legal conformity
The development of IT compliance concepts in your company ensures that all processes and data processing procedures can be handled in compliance with the law. IT compliance provides you with measures that you can monitor and respond to. It also defines requirements for contracts with customers and suppliers and the code of conduct of employees with regard to sensitive data.
Once you have developed the concepts for your organization, the guidelines and measures can be controlled, monitored and implemented with the help of suitable identity management tools, monitoring and automation tools.
Die Vorgehensweise
How do you go about implementing legally compliant data processing?
- Define all requirements and guidelines in your IT compliance concepts.
- Ensure implementation using software solutions such as IDM portals and user instructions.
- Set up monitoring and controlling mechanisms.
- Finally, you should implement a review and improvement process so that you can react quickly to any changes in legislation and new requirements.
Automate IAM compliance with the FirstWare IDM-Portal
IAM compliance through the FirstWare IDM-Portal ensures conformity with company guidelines.
Information security is ensured at various levels. Access control is provided through role management, while permissions are controlled based on policies, timeframes and approval procedures.
The IDM-Portal offers many automation options to strengthen your IAM compliance. Ensure that employees receive the appropriate IT permissions from the outset. New hires are automatically assigned permissions based on the user’s department, job and role in the organization. Changes in position lead to automated and transparent adjustments.
An authorization concept in accordance with company guidelines can be based, for example, on location, area and department, job title, management level and specialist function.
About FirstAttribute AG
FirstAttribute AG is an independent German cloud service and software company with a focus on Identity & Access Management (IAM) for AD and M365/Entra ID.
Find out everything you need to know about our software solutions and services here. Contact us if you want to update and accelerate your identity and authorization management and are looking for a customized IAM solution in a hybrid IT world.
