CyberArk Identity Flows - Automate and Orchestrate Identity Security with No-code Workflows

THE CHALLENGE 

The number of identities that need access to resources and the number of applications required to keep the business humming have exploded in recent years. And while managing the integrations and dependencies between these apps and identities without automation seems impossible, many companies do rely on manually-intensive, disjointed processes to onboard users and manage their evolving privileges. This is a timeconsuming and error-prone approach. Manually connecting the dots between data, applications, events and services hinders IT service agility, squanders resources and is fraught with risk. For example, it can take days or even weeks to grant new hires secure access to the tools they need to succeed or to remove access when an employee leaves the company — hampering productivity or leaving critical windows of time open to security threats. In addition to onboarding and offboarding challenges, tracking and re-assigning user privileges across disparate applications and systems as people change roles or as risks are detected is equally time consuming and complex. Threat actors routinely exploit these mis-provisioned, overprivileged or orphaned accounts to launch cyberattacks or exfiltrate data.

THE SOLUTION 

CyberArk Identity Flows allows organizations to eliminate manual tasks and processes by automating complex identity management workflows. It’s quick, easy and cost-effective. A no-code visual editor and thousands of prebuilt connectors make it possible to rapidly orchestrate identity events, build workflows and synchronize identity data across diverse applications, directory stores and repositories. 

CyberArk Identity Flows is an essential component of the CyberArk Identity Security Platform, which uses a holistic, risk-based approach to securing the ever-growing range of identities that gain access to an organization’s most sensitive resources. The workflows orchestrated by CyberArk Identity Flows provide the foundation for a successful Identity Security Strategy. 

For example, CyberArk Identity Flows helps IT and information security organizations: 

• Reduce IT overhead and free up resources to focus on strategic tasks by eliminating burdensome coding and scripting efforts. 

• Accelerate service agility and improve governance by automating identity workflows across disparate applications and systems. 

• Strengthen security by avoiding privilege creep and orphaned accounts when employees change positions or leave the company through automated deprovisioning and acting on risk data. 

• Reduce risks by allowing operations teams to take actions or respond to security events and suspicious activity quickly and efficiently through advanced data synchronization. 

• Create a more scalable and sustainable Identity Security architecture by reducing reliance on specialized skills or brittle homegrown solutions.

WHAT YOU CAN DO WITH IDENTIT Y FLOWS 

CyberArk Identity Flows allows you to automate routine IT and security operations, increase visibility and control, improve efficiency and reduce risk. The solution is ideal for creating workflows for various use cases, including identity lifecycle management automation, responding to risk with adaptive access control, and streamlining complex business processes. 

Enhance Identity Lifecycle Management 

Flows can provide value in the enterprise by automating Identity Lifecycle Management processes across heterogeneous HR applications and user repositories. With Flows, organizations can efficiently provision identities and access privileges when people join the company, adjust access when users change roles and remove access when users leave the company. Flows can also automatically transform and synchronize identity data across disparate applications and repositories — performing both inbound and outbound provisioning — greatly simplifying onboarding and offboarding processes. 

Orchestrate Responses to Security Events 

Flows can help organizations deploy stronger security controls around user access by leveraging external data from third-party apps. For example, Flows may automatically adjust access privileges for a user based on threat intelligence data to ensure that your most sensitive resources are protected at all times. If a privileged user exhibits risky behavior, Flows can send Slack notifications to IT, move the user into a new role across systems and automatically block access. By integrating Identity Flows with external threat intelligence services, you can identify and restrict risky users — strengthening your overall security posture and responsiveness to suspicious events.

BENEFITS 

Enable Operational Efficiencies and Deliver Measurable Cyber-Risk Reduction 

• Accelerate IT service agility and improve employee productivity 

• Improve IT efficiency and free up resources to focus on strategic tasks 

• Orchestrate managing responses to security risks and events 

• Visualize workflows and deliver a superior user experience 

• Avoid custom coding or scripting and eliminate automation complexity 

FEATURES 

• No-code Visual Builder. Visualize workflows with an intuitive UI and drag-anddrop functionality 

• Automation. Automate complex business processes by connecting data into workflows quickly and easily. 

• Application integration. Build custom connections quickly and easily with thousands of pre-built connectors. 

• Cross-application embedding. Embed features from one app into another. 

• Custom workflow apps. Allow end-users to initiate workflows through purposebuilt apps. 

• Dynamic workflows. Create dynamic workflows for events requiring user action.

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