Action Identity Blog

Working in multiple systems, applications, domains, and environments can be very frustrating and time consuming when controlling and maintaining growing businesses needs and requirements. Such things like passwords can be forgotten, lost, or even stolen more frequently in organizations that do not use any type of secure identity and access management solution. Also, provisioning users for authentication and authorization into various systems can sometimes take an entire team of resources days, weeks, or even months, depending on the size of the organization. This is why identity and access security are extremely important in almost every enterprise today. Many companies have already started to put into place different security solutions using software for two-factor authentication, and/or using identity and access management products like those offered by NetIQ, Oracle, CA, and ForgeRock.

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HealthcareIDM.com just launched a few weeks ago and it got us to thinking. We wanted to know what others were doing with this technology and we decided to scour the web for other information regarding identity and access management in healthcare. We were thrilled when we saw our identity management connectors on Novell’s (Now NetIQ) website.

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HID’s NaviGO software allows for strong, two-factor authentication.  This software functions with both proximity and crescendo cards.  However, did you know that NaviGO also provides Single Sign-On capabilities?  In HID’s terms, the software allows administrators to secure applications.

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As technology continually integrates with the modern workforce, user-related issues are bound to arise.  Companies are eternally at odds with finding the balance between safety and efficiency.  This becomes particularly troublesome in the field of healthcare.  Healthcare is the one industry where strict compliance rules often interfere with the ability to readily retrieve critical data, such as patient information.  However, a healthy balance does exist in today’s world.

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In our last post How IAM Helps with Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX), Part 1, we covered the parts of the SOX law that can be attained by implementing an identity and access management (IAM) solution. In the previous post, we talked about the first three buckets that auditors look for in SOX compliance findings, including confidentiality, integrity, and availability. 

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