Identity Management

As companies grow and become more dependent on digital systems, the need to manage identities and access efficiently and securely becomes increasingly critical. Without a robust identity and access management strategy, organizations face risks related to security, compliance and productivity, as well as challenges in ensuring that the right users have the right access to the right resources. Lotus ICT solutions are designed to solve these problems, offering an integrated and automated approach to identity governance, access control and compliance.

1. Challenge: Lack of Centralized Visibility over Identities and Accesses

Many companies face problems managing identities and accesses dispersed across different systems, applications and platforms. The lack of a centralized vision can lead to security risks and compliance errors, as well as making user management extremely inefficient.

How Lotus ICT solutions help:

  • Lotus ICT offers an Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) solution, which allows companies to consolidate and centralize identity and access management. This provides a holistic view of all users, their permissions and access activities in on-premises and cloud systems. With this centralization, IT teams can manage and monitor identities more effectively, detecting and correcting improper or unauthorized access problems quickly.

2. Challenge: Proliferation of Unmanaged Identities and Privileged Accesses

Privileged identities - administrator accounts, superusers and others with elevated access - pose a significant risk when not managed properly. Lack of control over who has access to which critical resources can result in security breaches and misuse.

How Lotus ICT solutions help:

  • Lotus ICT's Privileged Access Management (PAM) solution offers granular control over privileged identities and access. This includes the management of privileged sessions, ensuring that access to critical resources is properly authorized, monitored and audited in real time. PAM also makes it possible to implement least privilege policies, reducing the risk of unnecessary access and protecting critical assets from internal and external threats.

3. Challenge: Regulatory Compliance and Access Audits

Many companies have to comply with strict regulations relating to data protection, such as GDPR, LGPD, SOX, and HIPAA. Lack of effective identity and access governance can result in compliance failures, heavy fines and damage to the company's reputation.

How Lotus ICT solutions help:

  • Identity Governance and Compliance solutions automate the process of access governance and auditing. This includes periodically reviewing permissions, certifying access and generating detailed reports to ensure regulatory compliance. In addition, real-time auditing and reporting tools make it easier to follow up and prove compliance to regulators and audits, significantly reducing the time and effort required to remain compliant.

4. Challenge: Complexity and slowness in access provisioning and deprovisioning

Manually provisioning access for new users and deprovisioning access for departing employees can be time-consuming and error-prone. This inefficient process can cause delays in onboarding new employees and leave security gaps when ex-employees retain undue access.

How Lotus ICT solutions help:

  • Identity lifecycle automation is one of the key features of Lotus ICT solutions. Through automated workflows, access provisioning and deprovisioning takes place efficiently and accurately, ensuring that new employees quickly have the correct permissions and that former employees' credentials are revoked immediately after they leave. This eliminates delays, reduces manual errors and improves overall security.

5. Challenge: Poor Access Control in Hybrid Environments

With the growing adoption of hybrid environments (on-premises and cloud), access control is becoming more complex. Companies face difficulties in maintaining consistent access policies across different platforms and service providers.

How Lotus ICT solutions help:

  • Identity and access management in hybrid environments guarantees unified and consistent control over all systems, whether on-premises or in the cloud. The solution allows companies to apply uniform access policies across the entire environment, ensuring that all users have the correct access, regardless of where the resources are hosted. This facilitates access governance across multiple platforms and minimizes the risk of vulnerabilities in distributed environments.

6. Challenge: Inability to Monitor and Audit User Activities in Real Time

Without adequate tools to monitor and audit user activity in real time, companies are vulnerable to security breaches, especially when suspicious activity or anomalous behavior goes unnoticed.

How Lotus ICT solutions help:

  • Continuous monitoring and real-time auditing solutions allow companies to track all user activities, especially privileged ones, in real time. The platform automatically identifies and flags suspicious behavior, sending proactive alerts to security teams, who can act quickly to mitigate threats before they cause damage. This continuous visibility also facilitates post-incident audits, ensuring that the company has a complete history of activities.

7. Challenge: Inefficient Authentication and Authorization

Companies that don't implement strong authentication mechanisms are exposed to significant security risks, especially in a world where phishing and brute force attacks are commonplace. In addition, the absence of context-based or multi-factor authorization makes effective access control difficult.

How Lotus ICT solutions help:

  • Multi-factor authentication (MFA) and authentication based on risk and context, ensuring that access is controlled in a secure manner. With MFA, users must confirm their identity through more than one authentication factor, increasing security and minimizing the risk of intrusion. In addition, context-based authentication allows access policies to be dynamically adjusted based on factors such as location, device and type of access request, providing an additional level of control and protection.

8. Challenge: Third-party access management

Third parties and external partners who need to access corporate systems can pose a major security risk if access is not managed properly. Permissions are often granted broadly, without proper governance, which creates vulnerabilities.

How Lotus ICT solutions help:

  • Access management for third parties allows companies to effectively limit and control access by external users. This includes creating temporary access policies, ensuring that third parties only have the permissions they need to carry out their tasks and that these accesses are automatically revoked once the need has ended. With this access governance, companies minimize the risks associated with third parties and external partners.

Conclusion: Why Choose Lotus ICT Solutions?

Lotus ICT solutions offer a comprehensive and integrated approach to identity and access management and governance, solving customers' most critical pain points. They enable companies to have full control over their identities, effectively manage privileged access, ensure regulatory compliance and protect their most valuable assets from internal and external threats. Whether in on-premises, cloud or hybrid environments, the solutions help maintain security, efficiency and compliance in an increasingly complex IT landscape.

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