Challenges and changes
Very often we see a fragmentation of access management and security solutions. Any change within an organization quickly creates a daunting prospect. Many access management systems are built into individual applications, while others have evolved around particular groups of users, such as employees, business partners or customers. It's quite a challenge for you as an end manager to implement changes efficiently and quickly. You are not alone if it may be any consolation!
The increasing use of smartphones, smartwatches, etc. means that you may have separate systems to sign in to. You may also have a mix of SaaS solutions, middleware and systems running within your own server farm. This level of fragmentation is not only expensive to maintain and upgrade, but also presents a serious security problem, as a criminal can find the weakest link and compromise an entire organization.
Process improvement
How can you improve this situation? You can start by taking a step back and taking a more strategic view of access security. An open access management platform can help reduce complexity while reducing the cost of developing all kinds of separate applications and integrations.
Changes to your organization's access policies can be made once in a single software application. Those policy changes take effect across all domains and zones within your organization. Both at the local level and within a global context if you have multiple branches.
In addition to the advantages in terms of security and simplification, users can intervene where necessary with a personal intuitive dashboard, a strong reporting tool at a glance. The latest information within the company is always and everywhere available so that intervention is possible when it is needed!
Pause for a moment
There are several key features that you as an end manager, security manager or IT manager should look for in an access management platform. Take a look at what is present?
- What infrastructure is your solution running on? On-Premise or Cloud?
- How redundant is the system if the network fails?
- What authentication methods are in place today? Are they all equally secure? What badge technology are you working with today? Can you easily accommodate other authentications in the same system, such as digital keys/cylinders or biometric access control? Are your badges copy-protected and do you, the customer, own these unique keys?
- Is my current solution cybercrime-proof? Are annual PEN tests done on the application? Is the supplier of the application ISO 27001 certified?
- How well is the solution integrated into the existing IT infrastructure? For example, Active Directory and Azure authentication and synchronization, or can you use standard APIs to interface with any of your existing applications?
- Is the system flexible, and can it move with you as your organization needs it? Read more about this in this blog article.
- How many systems have not come into your organization over the years and stand side by side without any cooperation? What is the cost of maintaining them all, keeping them up to date?
- Couldn't overall building access management, parking be more efficient? What about visitors, customers, suppliers? Am I always and always aware of their activities within my organization or how I welcome them?
SYNGUARD offers an access management platform that provides all the answers and enables rapidly changing organizations to take back control of access management. With our open, stable and platform, organizations can consolidate, standardize and automate their access security to keep unwanted visitors out, increase user productivity and reduce costs.
