The challenge addressed by Enterprise Security (ESEC) standards is the need for efficient and accurate user account provisioning, for reliable access control and authorization, and for interoperable security compliance audit systems.
Today, enterprise security is often an error-prone manual process in which account and password adds, modifications, and deletes are performed on an individual basis for each system. Multiple users with different roles and entitlements often need to gain access to hundreds of operations systems. ESEC centralizes user data and provides standard processes and interfaces to operations systems that allow automation of identity management, user sign-on/off, and security reporting.
Enterprise Security standards enable:
- User and identity management: An integrated view and efficient, automated management of system access based on user roles and entitlements, per user, per system.
- Single sign-on/off: A controlled and automated sign-on/off standard
providing access to multiple systems, including automated password
management and control, based on business role.
- Compliance
reporting: Automated reporting and auditing of what the user has done,
including who, which roles, when, and on what system.
Driven by T-Mobile, Telefónica, and Vodafone and implemented by Comarch, Ericsson, Huawei, IBM, Nokia Siemens Networks, Twinsec, Wipro, and other suppliers, the Operator User Management standards include:
- A repository of user data
- Standard commands
- A standard interface to operations systems
These standards were formerly called Enterprise Identity Management. The name has been changed to reflect their enlarged scope.
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Business Benefits
- Minimizes security risks
- Reduces operating costs through automated provisioning and audit workflows and simplified identity management administration
- Reduces cost of error management through automation
- Reduces cost and time to test and go live with new systems
- Reduces capital expenditures through simple integration of identity management resources
- Simplifies regulatory compliance reporting
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