Overview of Identity Governance in EmpowerID

Identity Governance is a critical component of modern organizational security, ensuring access aligns with business policies and follows the principles of Zero Trust. At its core, EmpowerID’s approach to Identity Governance emphasizes "compliant access"—ensuring that access is appropriate for the user’s role and adheres to established risk policies. This minimizes exposure to unacceptable risks while maintaining operational efficiency.

Enabling Compliant Access with Risk Management

Compliant access is supported by EmpowerID’s risk engine, a powerful tool that helps organizations identify, assess, and address risks associated with granting or maintaining access. The risk engine provides decision-making support for accepting or rejecting risks and applies mitigating controls when needed.

Key capabilities include the identification of potential risks, preventive and detective Segregation of Duties (SOD) simulation and validation, and workflows for streamlining remediation and revocation. Organizations can use dashboards and automated processes to ensure that risks are resolved efficiently while adhering to compliance standards.

Access Intelligibility: Bridging Business and Technical Worlds

Managing access effectively requires more than understanding technical permissions; it also involves translating those permissions into business-relevant terms. EmpowerID addresses this challenge with its "Access Intelligibility Layer," which connects technical entitlements with business processes.

This layer introduces Functions, which represent business-user recognizable activities such as "Create Purchase Order" or "Approve Purchase Order." Instead of dealing with complex system-specific permissions, users can focus on these intuitive, outcome-based concepts.

EmpowerID provides Function Mapping Tools that establish relationships between application-specific permissions or roles and the corresponding Functions. Additionally, a pre-built library of Function definitions for common systems accelerates implementation and reduces complexity. Functions also form the foundation for risk policies, enabling organizations to identify and resolve access violations in business-relevant terms.

Comprehensive Risk Management Across Systems

Modern enterprises face the challenge of managing access risks across hybrid environments, combining Cloud and on-premise systems. EmpowerID offers a unified approach to risk management that centralizes and simplifies this process.

EmpowerID's extensive connector library ensures integration with diverse systems, providing seamless access to permissions data across the organization. Its inventory engine continuously monitors connected systems for changes, unauthorized access, and security alerts, allowing organizations to maintain an up-to-date risk posture.

When risks are identified, EmpowerID provides options for immediate resolution through automated access revocation or ticket creation in ServiceNow. These capabilities ensure that risks are addressed consistently and efficiently, reducing operational delays and manual effort.