Security and Identity Management for Higher Education

Every organization faces the challenge of maintaining control over systems and applications while ensuring appropriate user permissions are in place. At the highest level, this is the very core of identity management and a major factor in any organization’s compliance initiative.

Compliance and Change Management

Higher education institutions are especially vulnerable to security and identity management problems because they possess a greater deal of decentralized data, various authentication systems and an ever-changing user community. This makes it difficult to control who has access to sensitive data. Because security breaches create risks of legal liability, harm to the organization’s reputation and increased compliance costs, the issue of data theft has become a major worry for the nation's educational institutions.

Quest Software provides identity management solutions to help you to leverage Microsoft’s directory service - Active Directory.

• Access - control and monitor access to sensitive systems and data
• Extend Active Directory – extend Active Directory’s native capabilities to Unix, Linux, and Java
• Provisioning - automate and improve the provisioning, re-provisioning, and de-provisioning of users in Active Directory
• Password Management - streamline password management tasks
• Audit – audit and compliance reporting