Identity Access Management (IAM) is a set of technologies, policies, and processes used by an organization to control, manage, and audit users' access to digital resources.

It can be thought of as a security system that determines access permissions to certain resources by authenticating users. This authentication process is usually performed using authentication methods such as usernames and passwords, identifiers for a particular device, or biometric data.

It provides detailed access rights such as roles and authorizations assigned to users with identity access management. This may mean, for example, that a user can only access a certain database or a certain part of an application.

IAM's goals include data security, risk management, compliance and efficiency. An IAM system helps protect an organization's digital assets by minimizing data security vulnerabilities and verifying that users only have the necessary access rights.

What Does Identity and Access Management (IAM) Consist of?

Identity and access management (IAM) systems consist of a variety of tools that simplify tasks such as authorizing and deauthorizing users, monitoring, preventing unauthorized access, or managing evolving access rights.

Single sign-on (SSO): Single sign-on solutions enable a user to use a set of credentials to securely authenticate to an organization's infrastructure without having to sign into individual applications or resources. Thus, it reduces the need for the user to remember passwords or the risks of losing their identity information.

Multi-factor authentication (MFA): Multi-factor authentication gives the ability to more clearly and accurately verify that the user is who they claim to be. Adaptive multi-factor authentication prevents risks by constantly analyzing user and device behavior with a risk-based authorization control.

Lifecycle management (LCM): Allows organizations to simplify the tasks of managing the growing user environment of customers, employees, contractors, and partners. This method saves a great deal of time in information technology and human resources departments, while giving employees access to the applications they need to work more efficiently.

Centralized User and Device Management: Eliminates the risks of identity attacks. It ensures that user information and passwords are safe. It reduces information technology costs and increases security.

Access gateways (OAG): With Okta Access Gateway products, organizations can implement modern security tools such as single sign-on (SSO) and multi-factor authentication (MFA) into their on-premises infrastructure.

IAM for your servers: Used to expand infrastructure, centralize access control. It provides access to on-premises and cloud infrastructures without any problems. In doing so, it reduces the risks of identity theft and account theft. With the Okta ASA (Advanced Server Access) tool, the need for static keys is eliminated.

Who are Identity and Access Management Users?

An identity and access management system covers all users in an organization: employees, contractors, customers and business partners.

• Employees: Organizations need to authenticate their employees directly when they want to access an application, server or corporate network. The employee's access level is generally determined by their roles and departments.

• Contractors: People who work with an organization on a project for a short time or on a one-time basis may be granted access to certain resources or applications. While these users can access the applications during that project period, access tasks must be taken when the project is finished.

• Customers: Organizations can manage their profiles through customer identity and access management (CIAM) while connecting their customers' needs and wants to applications and services.

• Partners: To make the work done by many companies and management easier, they can give their partners' users access to relevant resource sharing.

What Are the Benefits of Identity and Access Management (IAM)?

Identity and access management has several benefits. Its main advantages are automation, security and governance. It reduces the time required to manually manage user accesses with the automation of identity and access management systems. In this way, greater operational efficiency is achieved. On the other hand, it also reduces the risk of human error.

With the right IAM strategies;

• Access to reliable and accurate information at the right time,

• Increasing customer confidence with easy collection of correct information and compliance,

• Reducing costs with data protection and new job opportunities,

• Adding value to your business is provided in addition to regulatory compliance.

Organizations today; In addition to their relations with employees, customers and business partnerships, they have an increasing need for identity and access management with the effect of regulations.

Organizations today are increasingly adopting remote work practices that put their IT resources at risk if not properly regulated. Identity and access management enables organizations to stay secure in changing business models for greater agility.

Doğuş Teknoloji is Okta's Partner in Turkey

Okta is a cloud-based identity and access management (IAM) platform. Okta helps organizations manage their employees' and customers' access to online applications, secure them, and improve the user experience.

As Doğuş Teknoloji, we provide services as one of the biggest partners of Okta, one of the world's leading companies in the field of Identity and Access Management, in Turkey. As Doğuş Teknoloji Okta Turkey partner, we serve its business partners and corporate customers with Okta's identity management solutions.

We help our stakeholders increase operational efficiency by offering Okta's identity and access management solutions to our customers. In addition, while these solutions increase the data security of our customers and support the protection of their sensitive data, we aim to make their business processes safer and more efficient. Thanks to this partnership, Doğuş Teknoloji customers can safely manage their digital identities, while increasing operational and human resource efficiency.

In short, cyber security applications and investments are of vital importance in today's digital world. Cyber attacks, cybercrime and other cyber threats are getting more sophisticated every day. Identity and access management (IAM) protects you and your accounts while allowing users to verify that they are who they say they are and access the apps and resources they have permission to use.

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