Single Sign on for your network and physical access
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Security is an imperative for any enterprise. In this age where information travels at the speed of light and businesses have to go global by necessity, managing security across an enterprise is a complex task. Enterprises implement several check points to log employee access. Chief among them being network login passwords and Id cards. One takes care of the network security while the other is more of a physical authentication.
With the increase in the number of internal access points ( such as intranet, customer site, personal database) companies have been implementing single sign on technologies that let users maintain a single authentication identity that can be leveraged across all sites.
However, this has not extended to the physical access level, where still the network identity and the physical identity are two disparate systems. Enter Imprivata, an organization that is using a technology to bridge the network security with the physical security. Advantages accrue from the fact that organizations can more easily manage access across all points. Also, several checks can be made to ensure that no compromise to the system is done by way of accessing an insider account from a different location.
But, there is also the question of exactly how safe it is to have only one checkpoint for all security verification. It does seem to simplify the task of hacking many systems to just compromising a single one. I believe it all depends on how secure your organizations access management really is since the Imprivata technology only merges two systems, adding no additional layer.
With the increase in the number of internal access points ( such as intranet, customer site, personal database) companies have been implementing single sign on technologies that let users maintain a single authentication identity that can be leveraged across all sites.
However, this has not extended to the physical access level, where still the network identity and the physical identity are two disparate systems. Enter Imprivata, an organization that is using a technology to bridge the network security with the physical security. Advantages accrue from the fact that organizations can more easily manage access across all points. Also, several checks can be made to ensure that no compromise to the system is done by way of accessing an insider account from a different location.
But, there is also the question of exactly how safe it is to have only one checkpoint for all security verification. It does seem to simplify the task of hacking many systems to just compromising a single one. I believe it all depends on how secure your organizations access management really is since the Imprivata technology only merges two systems, adding no additional layer.
