You need to stay competitive and allowing users to work anywhere, anytime is one of the ways your business keeps its edge. However, in some cases this means using personal devices to access data in unsanctioned cloud applications. In IT’s opinion this is risky behavior and something they are not comfortable with. Your users don’t engage in this behavior out of any malicious intent, but to innovate and improve productivity. However the increased use of mobility and cloud can increase the risk of loss of data or a breach. In parallel the more apps users need to access or the more “security” IT imposes generally impacts the user experience – especially on small mobile devices. Ultimately, the burden falls to IT to find a solution to balance innovation with risk, despite their increasingly complex environments – more mobile users on more platforms, more user stores, more apps, more passwords, but not more resources. Symantec Identity Access Manager (SAM) provides the much needed control, convenience, and compliance to bridge the gap between IT and the business.
SAM is a next generation access control platform for the cloud that integrates Single Sign-On (SSO) with strong authentication (supporting Symantec Validation and ID Protection Service (VIP), Symantec Managed PKI Service (MPKI), and RSA SecurID), access control, and user management. To make sure that it works for your business we’ve made SAM available as either an on premise solution or hosted service. Although SAM comes with a built-in user directory (a flexible way to help manage those contractors and other temporary workers) we’ve also made integration easy with common user directories.
With SAM you can give your user’s access anywhere, anytime, on any device, and with SSO they only have to login once! Access policies help ensure they only have access to what they should and strong authentication means all the apps SAM protections have a layer of protection so only the good guys get in.
Easy to create connectors allow IT to add virtually any Web based application to the application catalog, which already includes over 100 applications, helping to manage Shadow IT without impacting the success of your business. Finally, SAM helps simplify compliance auditing for cloud applications by consolidating access logs across all users and applications it protects; so you don’t lose sleep over what could happen if you fail a compliance audit.
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