for Administrators
The growing complexity of IT systems is a constant challenge for any company, especially for IT administrators. In addition, budget cuts are becoming more frequent, which leads to a situation in which many very important tasks are neglected. One area with tons of optimization potential is the area of Data Access Rights Management wehich has suffered from a dearth of appropriate tools and processes.
Transparent Active Directory
Problem: One of the best ways to manage your IT environment is the use of groups within the Active Directory framework. This makes it very important to understand how these groups are setup and structured and to be able to recognise effective membership of these groups including issues related to nesting and circulatory referencing. Currently available Microsoft tools do not allow you to make a direct connection between subjects (employees) and resources (access rights), making effective management of this process exceedingly difficult.
| Solution: 8MAN provides a clear overview of the Active Directory in an intuitive way that makes it easy to understand who has access to what data. 8MAN gives you a variety of graphical tools giving you an overview of which Users belong to which groups and which rights each individual has in accessing the relevant directories. |  |
Close security gaps
Problem: Trainees, Apprentices, temporary employees and contractors have been assigned rights, which are often not revoked when an employee has moved to another department or terminated their employment.
| Solution: With 8MAN you avoid unnecessary rights assignment by limiting the time period for which certain employees (contractors, temps and trainees) can have access to a given directory. Warnings and easy to run reports round-off the ability to quickly find gaps in security and minimize the risk of errors during the rights assignment process. | |  |
Simplified Access Rights Management Problem: In most cases the process for assigning user access rights is extremely cumbersome and very technical. Hence, few opportunites for process standardization and improvement exist.
| Solution: 8MAN simplifies your Access Rights Management process. The management is aided by the use of „wizards“, which focus on the technical aspects. You can concentrate on the requirements and 8MAN does the rest. This can accelerate your process by up to 80%. In addition, it is possible to allow the Data Owners and Department Managers to assign and manage the access rights to their data independently, freeing you up for other responsibilities. Access Rights Management with 8MAN is according to Microsoft’s best practice recommendation. | |  |
Detailed Documentation Problem: Your Manager or Auditor wants to know who has access to a given directory. Finding answers to this question is often more difficult than assumed. Fact is that a few new hires, changes of department or folder structure can be enough to cloud this picture. Often the research required to get all of the relevant answers can take hours or even days.
| Solution: 8MAN logs all actions. Allowing you to document who has access to what, when it was assigned and by whom. Every change in the system requires a comment, thus making it much easier to track the reasons for any given change. Reports and Analyses of the current access rights situation can be completed in seconds, allowing better transparency both internally, as well as for auditing and compliance procedures | |  |
Simple Integration 8MAN is easy to integrate and is much quicker than existing Identity Management solutions. Installation can be completed by the client directly without the need for lengthy implementation projects and costly consulting efforts. If you do require any help, our protected-networks support team is happy to be of assistance.
