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Intermedia AppID® Enterprise Introduces New Approach to IAM

Alongside the increased adoption of cloud and mobility technologies in the enterprise environment, there is a general expectation to have 24x7 access to web applications and data from personal and company-owned mobile devices and from any location. In fact, Intermedia saw 446,752 mobile devices newly activated on its network in 2014. With this in mind, Intermedia introduces “Dynamic Identity and Access Management,” a set of features and approaches within Intermedia AppID® Enterprise that, combined, automatically adapts and securely responds to changes in user types and behaviour- as users move around and pick up different mobile devices to complete tasks from any location.

Dynamic Identity and Access Management starts with policies that define when users can authenticate to and access particular applications based on contextual knowledge of where the user is and whether the mobile device with which they are attempting to gain access is trusted or untrusted. For example, access to financial or HR web apps may be restricted to company office locations or for remote users to specific IP addresses. Context-based authentication helps reduce risk by bringing contextual awareness and additional user data into the authentication process.

Dynamic Identity and Access Management can be applied not only to access to web applications, but also authorisation to specific features and functions – and data presented – within the web application. Intermedia AppID Enterprise is application feature aware, and application shaping can be used to limit access to high-risk features such as export, share and download. In addition, Dynamic Password Management is included in this solution, which automates the selection and changing of passwords – and helps ensure that passwords are not only as long and strong as the applications will support but also unique across all accounts. This helps eliminate the impact that human intervention has historically had on the process of choosing credentials.

“Dynamic Identity and Access Management addresses the authentication and authorisation management challenges associated with the way people work today,” said Richard Walters, General Manager and Vice President of Identity and Access Management (IAM) at Intermedia. “It enables cloud adoption through more flexible policies, unlocking productivity and cost benefits, without a negative impact to security.”

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Intermedia .