Managing user identities and their rights to access resources throughout the identity life cycle is critical for effective identity and access management, in both our physical and logical worlds. OPM, enables legitimated as well as approved users to access applications and data while protecting these assets against unauthorized access without interfering with productivity while balancing the security risks with the cost of acquisition and management.
OPM enables organizations to provide authorized user access to systems, portfolio of products and services
Provides efficient management of the entire identity lifecycle: assessing, planning, implementing, auditing, monitoring and maintaining identities and access privileges
Identity life-cycle management, with user self-care, enrollment, proofing, provisioning, recertification and de-provisioning
Identity control, including access and privacy control, role management, single sign-on (SSO) and auditing
Access authorization provides timely access throughout the user's life cycle across multiple environments and security domains while enforcing security policies and protecting against external threats with:
Centralized control for consistent execution of security policies across multiple applications and users
Automation with a policy-based security infrastructure guided by IT requirements and business goals
Single Sign-On (SSO) to improve the user experience and reduce help-desk costs
Integration of access and identity management within one infrastructure environment
Identity federation to share user authentication and attribute information between trusted Web services applications