The 4 problems you avoid with an Identity Provider

Have you ever heard about the concept of Identity Provider?

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It is a technological solution allowing your company to manage and authenticate the identities of your users.

The associated acronym is IAM (Identity and Access Management), which literally means in French: Access and identity management.

Indeed, nothing is more important, in our ultra-connected world, than to ensure that the people who access your information system (containing your sensitive data) have the authorization to do so. Otherwise, you are exposed to very expensive computer attacks.

Having a quality Identity Provider is therefore an integral part of your strategy for cybersecurity.

In the rest of this article, we will first see the advantages of this tool, then 4 common problems that are avoided by using an Identity Provider.

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The benefits of using an IAM

Simplifying identity management

The first advantage of an IAM: it centralizes the management of user identities, allowing you to manage user access to all applications and services in the company, from a single location.

This reduces administrative workload and allows for more effective identity and access management.

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Improving your computer security

That is not all!

By implementing an IAM in your IT system, you are greatly strengthening the cybersecurity level of your company.

In addition, since the computer workstation is often a vulnerability in computer security, the management of access to applications, via these workstations, is of particular importance.

Simplifying the user experience

For your teams, the Identity Provider also brings the advantage of be able to use and remember a single login and password pair.

Thanks to these 2 pieces of information, your users will then be able to access all the applications and services of your company, without having to reconnect!

The consequence is immediate: significant productivity gains.

Indeed, your users will no longer waste time “recovering their passwords” for the various applications they use.

They will also avoid wasting time on a daily basis when reconnecting to these applications, thus improving their productivity.

In the end, IAM is one of those tools that can contribute to the satisfaction of your team, thanks to simpler work and without wasting unnecessary time!

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Strengthening your compliance

Last key benefit: the Identity Provider allows you to comply with personal data regulations (such as the GDPR).

Thanks to a fine and structured management of access, identity and privilege management, it is much easier for you to respect the confidentiality of data and the protection of sensitive information.

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Avoid these 4 problems with your Identity Provider

Let's now look at 4 problems frequently encountered in French companies, which disappear thanks to the use of an IAM!

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Reducing “password exhaustion”

Your employees need to remember a lot of passwords. However, as the number of passwords increases, so do the risks. You have to invent new ones, remember them, not make mistakes, find them again in case of error... Exhausting, isn't it?

To limit this “fatigue” associated with passwords, many employees then start keeping written notes, spreadsheets and other forms of paperwork, all of which are not very secure, if at all, secure.

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All these documents containing sensitive data (since they allow access to your information system) can fall into the hands of hackers.

With an IAM, this risk disappears!

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Save time in managing user lists

Your teams of employees, your partners and subcontractors, as well as your customers all potentially need access to some of your company's computer applications.

Managing these lists of users, as well as their rights and accesses, can be very time consuming.

Your IT team certainly has other more relevant missions to carry out to help your business develop!

Thanks to the use of an IAM, all this administrative access monitoring work disappears.

By the way, did you know that? Rzilient's outsourcing platform acts like an IAM (among other features)!

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Identifying errors made easy

When someone makes a mistake, it is useful to be able to identify that person, in order to train and support them in the evolution of their skills or behaviors (in order to prevent this error from appearing again).

An Identity Provider keeps a lot of data allowing to know who was online, at what time, and on which application, in order to facilitate the identification of errors and solve them.

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Disparate databases

Your business operates at its best when it has a single version of useful information.

If your employees connect to their applications using different methods each time, it becomes very difficult to get a clear picture of the overall situation...

User lists are not up to date and are duplicated across departments, creating the risk of errors.

This quickly leads to problems with the consistency and management of your accesses and identities. These also disappear thanks to the implementation of an IAM!

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Conclusion: Rzilient gives you access to IAMs and much more!

As we have seen, having an IAM tool can solve a lot of problems for your business, and also bring you concrete benefits.

As it happens, the Rzilient platform offers numerous integrations with various IAMs on the market (among other features).

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