FISA

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