Identity Management - ILM Microsoft

Identity Life Cycle Management: Automate Identity and Access Management

Business Needs

• Manage a growing number of digital identities quickly and easily
• Reduce the high costs and risks associated with the manual provisioning and de-provisioning of user identities
• Simplify the management of new security initiatives, such as smart card and certificates
• Reduce help desk costs for simple tasks, such as password resets

Microsoft Identity Lifecycle Manager 2007 (ILM 2007) provides an integrated and comprehensive solution for managing the entire lifecycle of user identities and their associated credentials. It provides identity synchronisation, certificate and password management, and user provisioning in a single solution that works across Microsoft Windows and other organisational systems. As a result, IT organisations can define and automate the processes used to manage identities from creation to retirement.

Benefits

• Boost efficiency by integrating with existing infrastructures to automate and centralise identity lifecycle processes and tools that were historically disparate and manual.
• Improve operational efficiency by gaining a single view of a user across multiple systems.
• Incorporate strong authentication tools seamlessly with end-to-end lifecycle management of smart cards and digital certificates.
• Reduce integration and customisation costs by providing a single foundation for all core identity lifecycle management.
• Improve security and compliance with the ability to enforce and track identities across the enterprise.
• Reduce help desk costs by providing people with self-help tools to manage routine tasks, such as changing passwords or resetting smart card PINs.