New features help customers efficiently manage
user access, better protect sensitive information, and address
regulatory requirements
City and County of San
Francisco meets user access goals with Oracle Access
Governance
LAS
VEGAS, Sept. 20, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Oracle
CloudWorld -- Oracle today announced updates to Oracle
Access Governance to help IT teams better assign, monitor, and
manage user access to applications and other tech resources. This
cloud-native service provides detailed visibility into how users
interact with tech resources, helping to reduce risk by allowing
only authorized users to use, see, or interact with restricted
assets such as source code, patents, databases, applications, or
infrastructure resources like cloud servers and services.
Providing enough access to legitimate users without exposing
sensitive data, applications, or infrastructure to unintended
parties is a growing challenge for all organizations. As different
users including employees, contractors, customers and suppliers
join or change roles, their access must also change. For example,
teaching hospitals store personal information about patients that
is protected by HIPAA regulations. Medical students do not need
access to patient data, but they will require it when they become
residents after graduating. Oracle Access Governance can detect the
change in status from student to resident and automatically change
permissions based on the needs of the new role.
These challenges are increasingly important in highly regulated
or sensitive industries that handle personal data like financial
services, healthcare, and government agencies. The City and County
of San Francisco (CCSF), for
example, serves more than 4.5 million residents and must ensure
their services are always accessible for internal and external
users including the public, employees, suppliers, and state
agencies. As a government agency that provides essential services,
CCSF must provide access to users without compromising sensitive
data. CCSF turned to Oracle Access Governance because it is
user-friendly and available 24x7. Easy-to-use functions to review
access and design assignment workflows help CCSF achieve its
identity and access management goals.
When organizations need to manage a handful of applications and
users, identity and access teams may be able to manually review and
grant each individual access request. But, as organizations grow to
10,000, 100,000 or more users—each requiring access to different
resources—the job becomes unmanageable for humans.
New Features Help Organizations Manage
Access
Oracle Access Governance has helped make it
easier for organizations to automate identity governance and
administration tasks to better manage the access needs for large
numbers of users with new features including:
- Dynamic Access Control: Helps automate the process of
managing the identity lifecycle and resource access. It can grant
access to thousands of users at once following several common
methods—including attribute, role, or policy-based access
control—and enables organizations to customize methods to meet
their unique needs. It can also automatically grant access through
bundles that assign privileges to large groups with granular and
customizable control based on corporate policies and identity
collections.
- No-Code Workflow Formation: Helps organizations define
the process for access provisioning, reviews, and control without
requiring additional IT or development resources. An intuitive,
graphical interface makes it easy for organizations to visualize
and design access governance processes while integrating tools such
as user management and identity collection services into workflows.
A well-designed process speeds up access provisioning for both
humans and machines.
- Swift Application Onboarding: Helps organizations
provision access to new on-premises and cloud applications with a
guided step-by-step process and simplified data loading. A
wizard-based system manages user identities centrally and prepares
applications for access provisioning by managing and updating
information without cumbersome data migrations. Streamlining the
connection between application resources and Oracle Access
Governance helps organizations better secure personal information
about users.
"As global environments become increasingly digital and complex,
it is becoming more challenging for organizations to efficiently
manage user access and protect sensitive information," said
Pavana Jain, vice president of
product management, Oracle Identity and Access Management. "The new
features within Oracle Access Governance address a critical gap in
the market by giving organizations better tools to maintain a
complete view of user access and manage those permissions even in
shifting IT environments."
"With our transition to a cloud-based governance solution,
Oracle Access Governance presents an appealing option for
streamlining user access reviews, providing enterprise-wide
visibility into access permissions, ensuring zero migration effort,
and offering insight-driven analytics," said Monica J. Field, IT director, identity and
access management, Cummins Inc. "We believe it has the
potential to enhance our IT security and efficiency, making it a
worthwhile solution for organizations exploring cloud governance
platforms."
"As we steer our path towards the adoption of a cloud native
governance architecture, Oracle Access Governance rises as a
critical player in this arena. Its strategic design, emphasizing
intuitive user access review, prescriptive analytics powered by
data insights, and automated remediation, echoes our commitment to
fostering a secure IT environment," said Chinna Subramaniam, director, IAM &
directory Services, Department of Technology, City and County of
San Francisco. "This cloud native
service aligns perfectly with our forward-looking IT security
strategy, and we are eager to explore its potential."
"Oracle Access Governance offers the capabilities we need to
meet our strategic business and security requirements including
intuitive access reviews through a user-friendly and productive
user interface, robust analytics, and automated remediation powered
by advanced machine learning technologies," said John Kelly, director, identity and access
services, University Information Technology Services, UMass. "This
cloud-native service supports our commitment to building a secure
and cost-effective IT environment for our employees, students, and
businesses. Because it can seamlessly connect to our existing
identity governance and administration solution and other
investments on-premises and in the cloud, Oracle Access Governance
is a pivotal asset for our identity governance strategy."
Additional Resources
- Learn more about Oracle Access Governance
- Take an Oracle Access Governance product tour
- Read what industry analysts have to say about Oracle Access
Governance
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