Our team of identity and access management consultants specialized in large projects implemented for corporate financial sector and central governments. This team uses gained expertise to enable organization of all sizes and operating in any field becoming confident that access to their data is secure and controlled.

In order to achieve such a goal, Locked ID Software adopted and extended an industry-leading methodology that implements behavior-driven governance, key to unlocking our clients’ continuous visibility into what access rights are being used, if any, and by whom.

• You can start by implementing a simplified identity management system that suits the company size and complexity. Such a system can be as easy as Microsoft 365, and still offering centralized user management, authentication, access control features tailored for small businesses. Or it can be a focused implementation of enterprise governance, stripped down of the unneeded functionalities.

• Implement role-based access control tailored to the most preeminent business roles in your company. Define roles based on job functions or responsibilities and assign appropriate permissions to each role. This ensures that people have access only to the resources necessary for their roles, reducing the risk of unauthorized access.

• Enforce strong authentication methods such as multifactor and biometric authentication for all business-critical applications and services. This adds an extra layer of security beyond just usernames and passwords, significantly reducing the risk of unauthorized access due to compromised credentials.

• Implement basic auditing capabilities to track user activity and access attempts. While you may not require sophisticated SIEM implementations, simple adherence to LockedID Compliant cloud offering will leverage all needed capabilities to monitor user actions and detect suspicious activities.

Key elements to behavior-driven identity governance include:

• User behavior analysis by collecting and analyzing traces of user activity such as logins, file access, application usage and other interactions with systems. By understanding typical user behavior patterns, deviations can be detected and automatically countered.

• Risk-based access control through access rights assessment based on the risk associated with user behavior. Users with high-risk behavior may be subject to stricter access controls or additional authentication measures to mitigate potential security risks.

• Continuous monitoring of people activity in real time. This enables organization to promptly identify and respond to security incidents or policy violations as they occur.

Behavior-driven governance leverages adaptive access controls that dynamically adjust user permissions based on their behavior and risk profile. For example, of a users’ behavior indicates a potential security threat, their access privileges are restricted until the issue is resolved.

Advanced analytics techniques, such as machine learning and artificial intelligence, can be employed to automate the detection of anomalous behavior and improve decision-making processes. These technologies can help indicate security risks as compliance issues.

Identity governance provides comprehensive audit trails and reporting capabilities to demonstrate compliance. With regulatory requirements and internal policies. Detailed logs of user activity facilitate auditing and investigations into security incidents on policy violations.

Behavior-driven identity governance enables you to proactively manage and mitigate security risks, enhance compliance and improve overall governance of access and privileges within applications. By focusing on user behavior as a key factor in access control and governance decisions, organizations can better adapt to evolving security threats and ensure the integrity and confidentiality of data.

Whether your company needs to align with regulatory standards like ISO/IEC 27001, FISMA, HIPAA or PCI DSS, or you have to meet GDPR mandates, or simply you want to make sure employees’ activity is safe and secure, auditing on access and systems security can be an overwhelming task.

Such means make the core of our AI-powered offering of services. We build upon an industry- standard framework and provide for our customers:

• Regulatory compliance mapping to common standards.

• Development of policies and procedures specifically addressing your uniqueness, covering areas like identity lifecycle management, access control and authentication, business continuity and disaster recovery, incident response, compliance monitoring and reporting.

• Risk assessment based on potential impact and like hood of occurrence.

• Implementation of appropriate controls to mitigate identified risks and ensure compliance. Such controls can include role-based access, multifactor authentication, encryption of sensitive data, data redundancy or incident detection and response mechanisms.

• Continuous monitoring for threats and deviations from compliance, through real-time alerting and meaningful reporting.

• Remediation and permanent improvement of compliance by working with relevant stakeholders to address identified deficiencies and implement remediation actions.

No two organizations are the same, just like no two people are the same. Still, there are matching challenges and objectives, and common patterns that evolve in foreseeable security space. Auditing for resilient compliance relies on feeds that are translated into data context and flows, all embedding powerful analytics at the core.

Locked ID Software provides the unified security and observability means that accelerate detection, investigation and response against evolving threats and irregular practices, continuously monitoring and reassessing identity governance and resilience practices, enabling you to create, adhere and follow a personalized audit and compliance framework.

Such a goal used to be very difficult to implement and maintain in SMB field; for larger organizations, complexity was the main stopper in achieving true governance. Nowadays, organizations of all sizes can establish a foundational level of security that protects their assets and reduces the risk of data breaches and unauthorized access. While small businesses may have limited resources compared to large enterprises, prioritizing basic identity governance measures can significantly enhance their overall security posture.

User lifecycle can be a very time and resource consuming activity. This typically includes actions such as provisioning, de-provisioning and re-provisioning users as a result of role or job responsibility changes. Ongoing management of access rights and permissions across various data silos, systems and applications should be streamlined through automation and regularly checked through compliance, leaving little room for human error on the long run.

Locked ID Software partners with industry-leading solution providers like Microsoft and One Identity to provide complete, business-driven governance and lifecycle automation for identity, data and permissions. Our offering:

• Provides a unified platform for governance, that is modular and extends both to on-premise and cloud applications;

• Reduces management burden with analytics-driven automation of user lifecycle and real-time compliance check;

• Provides attestation and access certification, empowering lice-of-business personnel to approve or deny access and entitlements, while elevating a fully integrated self-service system for request and approval;

• Secures and enables governance of both structured applications and unstructured silos of files, folders and shares – including cloud silos like Google Drive, Microsoft SharePoint and Teams;

• Integrates with HR systems, ensuring that user accounts are created, modified and deactivated in a timely manner, based on HR events such as hiring, termination or role changes.

By automating the user lifecycle management process, organizations can streamline administrative tasks, improve security and compliance, and enhance overall efficiency in managing user identities and access rights across the organization.