Governance and administration patterns
Governance and administration patterns cover the operational aspects of identity management – specifically provisioning digital identities for the cloud and applications, securing them, and ensuring the processes are rightly governed to meet audit and compliance risks.
Identity governance and administration pattern
We will look into the following example.
Problem
Enterprises need a way to report and audit all the user activities in the cloud. This will include reporting across user management, authentication, and authorization functions. Identity governance is a key aspect of cloud security. Without this capability, a badly provisioned user or user entitlement can put entire enterprise cloud resources at risk.
Context
Enterprises need to have IAM reporting and governance because of the following reasons:
- Reporting helps gain higher visibility of users’ activities
- Analyzing IAM data helps to quickly identify...
