Identity Automation’s CEO, James Litton, was recently interviewed by the Houston Business Journal regarding IT Security. Following is Mr. Litton’s quote:
“The biggest challenge when it comes to IT security is lack of effective controls for who has access to what and when. Most organizations have good policies in place but those policies require human beings to follow them and implement them. Most IT departments have their hands full with day-to-day support duties and projects and policy adherence suffers. Every week we hear a story of how a business or school or government agency was compromised and sensitive data fell into the wrong hands. If these problems are to be mitigated it is imperative that automated Identity and Access Management solutions be implemented to reduce risk. With such a system in place it now becomes possible to automatically enforce policies around data access, segregation of duties, account / access terminations, password complexity, location access and many other risk mitigating policies. These solutions also make it possible to effectively control access to super-user accounts which, combined with an effective workflow system, know exactly who had access to what and when so that risk can be mitigated upfront but also be able to better chase down a perpetrator if a compromise does indeed occur.
With our ever increasing technology dependence and with that technology growing in complexity at exponential rates, no organization can claim that they are taking security seriously if they do not have fully automated Identity and Access controls in place to ensure compliance and reduce risk.”
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