Oracle Corporation
12/17/2024 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 12/17/2024 08:30
Enhancing Oracle Identity Governance with Arcon PAM
Imagine being the head of IT security at a large corporation, whether in healthcare, banking, manufacturing, or telecommunications. Your organization handles sensitive data, system configurations, and crucial transactions daily. Privileged accounts with advanced access rights are integral to managing this environment. However, if left unchecked, these accounts also pose considerable risks because they can become prime targets for malicious activity.
As an IT leader, you recognize that securing these accounts is vital. Implementing Arcon Privileged Access Management (PAM) provides the control needed to secure and monitor privileged accounts. But with evolving regulatory demands and complex technological landscapes, simply controlling access isn't enough. You need comprehensive governance to monitor and audit privileges across their entire lifecycle.
Here, the integration of Arcon PAM with Oracle Identity Governance becomes essential. The combination of Oracle Identity Governance and Arcon PAM makes it easier to control access by applying various access controls to all users. This control helps reduce the risk of giving users too many permissions or allowing unauthorized actions.
Oracle Identity Governance and Arcon PAM: A unified approach across industries
Oracle Identity Governance provides a robust identity management solution tailored to meet the diverse security and compliance needs across various sectors. From user provisioning and deprovisioning to enforcing access policies, Oracle Identity Governance helps organizations achieve regulatory compliance in industries ranging from healthcare (HIPAA) to finance (SOX) and telecommunications (FCC). Arcon PAM builds an identity security posture where every identity is managed, controlled, monitored and governed to meet access control related compliance requirements across verticals, regions and prevent chances of unauthorized access. Integrating Arcon PAM with Oracle Identity Governance enhances privileged access governance, providing centralized oversight to manage, monitor, and audit privileged accounts. This unified approach helps ensure secure, scalable identity and access management, empowering organizations to meet regulatory standards while protecting critical systems.
The rising complexity of privileged access
Industries like telecom, banking, healthcare, and manufacturing often face a complex mix of internal employees, contractors, vendors, and partners, all of whom might require privileged access. Managing this access can become daunting, especially where incidents could impact sensitive information, disrupt operations, or even affect national infrastructure.
Take a large corporation's IT department, which must onboard users, assign appropriate privileges, monitor access rights, conduct regular access reviews, and manage deprovisioning, all without leaving security gaps. This complexity spans sectors and can expose organizations to insider threats or regulatory risks if not properly managed. The Arcon PAM and Oracle Identity Governance integration automates and streamlines governance, enforcing best practices around privileged access for improved security and compliance.
How Arcon PAM and Oracle Identity Governance work together
The integration of Arcon PAM with Oracle Identity Governance creates a comprehensive framework for managing privileged access, combining PAM's stringent access control with OIG's lifecycle management and governance capabilities. This integration transforms privileged access management across industries with the following features and capabilities:
Self-service and workflow automation for streamlined operations: Organizations often struggle to balance operational efficiency with security. Employees and contractors need timely access to systems, but delays in access approvals can hinder productivity. The Arcon PAM-Oracle Identity Governance integration introduces self-service access requests for privileged accounts, enabling users to request access to specific systems. When approved, Arcon PAM automatically provisions the access, enabling swift and secure access without operational delays. This streamlined, automated workflow helps reduce bottlenecks and allows operations to run smoothly without compromising security.
End-to-end lifecycle management for all account types: As users move between roles or projects, whether in healthcare, telecom, or manufacturing, managing their access dynamically is crucial. The integration automates lifecycle management for any account type, whether privileged, standard, or temporary. From onboarding new employees to deprovisioning departing contractors, this automation helps ensure seamless access management. Oracle Identity Governance handles provisioning and deprovisioning based on predefined roles and policies, while Arcon PAM helps ensure granular access control for sensitive accounts. This comprehensive management approach helps minimize risks by preventing orphaned accounts and reducing potential vulnerabilities.
Access control through role, policy, and context: Effective access control enables organizations to assign, monitor, and manage user access, including privileged accounts, based on roles, policies, and contextual factors. The integration of Arcon PAM with Oracle Identity Governance supports the following advanced access mechanisms:
Automatic access: Automatically provides essential access to users when onboarded, based on their role, helping ensure that they immediately have access to key systems and any necessary privileged accounts.
Temporary access: Grants short-term access for contractors or project-based roles, with automatic revocation after a specified period, reducing the risk of inactive or unnecessary accounts remaining open.
Role-based access control (RBAC): Assigns access according to job responsibilities, helping ensure that users, including privileged account holders, have only the permissions required for their specific roles.
Policy-based access control (PBAC): Adjusts access dynamically based on contextual factors like time, location, or task, allowing organizations to fine-tune permissions as needed.
This multifaceted approach provides a secure, adaptable framework for access management, enabling organizations to meet security and compliance requirements effectively.
Automated access certifications and reviews: One of the biggest challenges in access management is conducting manual reviews across hundreds of privileged accounts. This aspect is especially critical in highly regulated industries where maintaining accurate and timely access certifications is essential. Regulations like HIPAA in healthcare, PCI-DSS in banking, SOX in finance, GDPR for data protection, and FCC standards in telecommunications mandate secure management of sensitive data and privileged access. With the Arcon PAM-Oracle Identity Governance integration, access reviews and certifications are automated. Oracle Identity Governance triggers regular reviews of privileged accounts, helping to ensure only authorized personnel retain access. This automation minimizes the risk of excessive privileges, enabling swift detection and mitigation of unauthorized access.
Policy enforcement and segregation of duties: In industries like banking, healthcare, manufacturing, and telecom, enforcing segregation of duties (SoD) is essential to prevent operational conflicts and reduce the risk of fraud. For example, in banking, separating payment processors from those approving transactions is crucial, while in healthcare, personnel involved in patient data management shouldn't have access to billing systems. Similarly, in manufacturing, users managing production schedules shouldn't alter inventory records. The integration enforces SoD policies across these sectors by flagging conflicts in access requests. For example, if an engineer who manages critical network configurations requests access to financial data, Oracle Identity Governance blocks the request to maintain proper segregation. This automated enforcement not only reduces insider threats but also helps ensure operational integrity.
Simplifying regulatory compliance: Regulations across industries demand meticulous records of who accessed what and when, posing a significant burden on IT teams to help ensure compliance. Manual tracking can be error-prone, particularly when responding to audit requests or proving compliance with laws like GDPR, HIPAA, PCI-DSS, SOX, and telecom-specific standards. The integration addresses this challenge by providing real-time records of privileged access activities. Whether it involves access to customer billing systems, sensitive patient data, or production environments, this integration offers an audit-ready trail of activity. This capability streamlines audit processes, reducing the workload for IT teams while supporting regulatory compliance.
Conclusion
Managing privileged access is more than a technical requirement. It's a strategic imperative for safeguarding data and maintaining regulatory compliance across industries. The integration of Arcon PAM with Oracle Identity Governance provides a unified, comprehensive solution for managing, monitoring, and governing privileged access.
This solution offers streamlined access control with Arcon PAM and uses Oracle Identity Governance for lifecycle management, automated reviews, and audit-ready records. Together, they help organizations reduce the risk of security breaches, maintain compliance, and improve operational efficiency.
As companies face evolving security challenges, integrating Arcon PAM with Oracle Identity Governance is more than a best practice. It's an essential measure for protecting sensitive data and helping ensure smooth, compliant operations. This integrated approach allows organizations to focus on innovation and growth, knowing their security infrastructure is resilient and reliable.
For detailed instructions and troubleshooting, refer to our official Oracle Identity Manager Connectors documentation. To learn more about this solution, visit the following resources:
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