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What Are the Best
Identity Management Solutions
for SOX Compliance?
The most important questions
a CFO or CIO must address
when considering the financial
outlay of deploying an identity
management system are:
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• Is it worth the cost?
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• Is it secure
and SOX compliant?
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• Does it need to be?
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The problem is that only
some companies fall under
SOX regulations
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If however, the company
does find its self under
SOX regulations,
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they had better find themselves
in compliance
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Penalties are stringent
as are fines, with imprisonment
a real possibility
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SOX Compliance
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In order to consolidate
these disparate systems,
an identity and access
management suite is required
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Point applications may
already be deployed
and working, such as
Oracle Identity Manager,
CA's SiteMinder & MS Forefront
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While this be a cost effective
answer, it fragments security
and leaves gaps between
each vendor's solutions
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Solution
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In order to apply compliance
and regulatory rules,
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a business requires
a suite of applications
tightly coupled by design
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An example would be
Oracle Identity Management
Suite (OIM) that has integrated
applications that support all
functionality:
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• Identity management
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• Access management
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• Auditing
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• Compliance
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• Alerts
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Features
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In order to fulfill
SOX requirements,
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an identity and access
management solution (IAM)
must have tight integration and
be under one vendor umbrella
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Having multiple vendor point
solutions such as CA SiteMinder
and Forefront will not suffice,
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you need a suite of
applications such as Oracle
Identity Management (OIM)
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Bottom Line
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When considering an
identity management solution
for a business that is under
SOX regulations,
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look for Oracle Identity
Management Suite
or another suite of applications,
perhaps IBM Tivoli
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Avoid point products
under different vendors
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Deploy a vendor suite of
applications to mitigate
the risk of fragmented security
and security gaps
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How has your identity
management solution
helped you deal with
SOX compliance issues?
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Let us know your thoughts
in the Comments box below
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