To say the online world has drastically changed since the advent of the internet is an understatement. We shop, bank, work, date, research and communicate online. If you were to take an inventory of the personal and professional accounts you have online that require you to verify your identity, you probably couldn’t list them all.
In many ways, how we secure, manage and verify our digital identities has become as important — if not more important — than how we represent ourselves in person. Our privacy, security and sensitive assets are at stake and are more accessible to us, and to those who wish to harm us. For government agencies, the ability to provide secure and seamless services to millions of people is on the line. It can be easy to get caught up in the excitement of all the possibilities that going digital can offer, but identity and access management must be an integral part of that discussion.
How we secure, manage and verify our digital identities has become as important — if not more important — than how we represent ourselves in person. Our privacy, security and sensitive assets are at stake and are more accessible to us, and to those who wish to harm us. For government agencies, the ability to provide secure and seamless services to millions of people — think tax and public-safety systems — is on the line. It can be easy to get caught up in the excitement of all the possibilities that going digital can offer, but identity and access management must be an integral part of that discussion.
Identity access management is the security discipline that enables the right individual to access the right resource at the right time for the right reason. Ensuring its effectiveness extends beyond the IT and cybersecurity teams. Everyone plays a role, and they come from multiple offices, including finance, human resources, legal, acquisition and physical security.
Download the full report to read more about identity access management. You'll learn:
- What an effective identity access management strategy looks like.
- How to modernize cybersecurity capabilities and improve government adoption.
- How other agencies have adopted shared identity access management solutions and services, including government use cases from DHS, CMS and DDTC.
You will also hear from IAM experts at the Agriculture Department (USDA), National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA).
