Simplifying IAM through orchestration

The
recent

X-Force
Threat
Intelligence
Index
validated
what
many
of
us
in
the
industry
already
knew:
Identity
has
become
the
leading
attack
vector.
The
2024
report
showed
a
71%
increase
in
valid
identities
used
in
cyberattacks
year-over-year.
What
really
puts
it
into
perspective
is
the
realization
that
you
are
just
as
likely
to
have
your
valid
identity
used
in
a
cyberattack
as
you
are
to
see
a
phishing
attack
in
your
organization.
Hackers
don’t
hack
in;
they
log
in.

The
risk
of
valid
identities
being
used
as
the
entry
point
by
bad
actors
is
expected
to
continue
with
the
ever-increasing
applications
and
systems
being
added
in
today’s
hybrid
environments.
We
are
finding
an
overwhelming
majority
of
organizations
are
choosing
to
use
different
identity
vendors
that
offer
the
best
capability
for
each
use
case,
instead
of
consolidating
with
one
vendor.
The
use
of
various
identity
tools
is
further
compounded
with
managing
access
to
your
legacy
application
infrastructure,
integrating
new
users
during
mergers
and
acquisitions.
The
hybrid
reality
has
also
led
to
an
inconsistent
user
experience
for
your
workers,
partners
and
customers,
an
increased
risk
of
identity-based
attacks,
and
added
an
additional
burden
on
your
admins. 

To
solve
the
identity
challenges
created
by
today’s
hybrid
environments,
businesses
need
a
versatile
solution
that
complements
existing
identity
solutions
while
effectively
integrating
various
identity
and
access
management
(IAM)
silos
into
a
cohesive
whole.
Solutions
that
help
create
a
consistent
user
experience
for
your
workers,
partners
and
customers
across
all
applications
and
systems.
Organizations
and
industry
analysts
refer
to
this
connected
IAM
infrastructure
as
an
identity
fabric.
Organizations
have
begun
to
move
toward
connecting
multiple
IAM
solutions
through
a
common
identity
fabric.

Securing
the
digital
journey

To
protect
the
integrity
of
digital
user
journeys,
organizations
use
a
range
of
tools
spanning
bot
mitigation,
identity
verification
and
affirmation,
user
authentication,
authorization,
fraud
detection
and
adjacent
capabilities
such
as
risk
analytics
and
access
management.
Building
and
maintaining
these
integrations
is
complex
and
carries
an
operational
overhead
regarding
time
and
resources.
These
various
tools
don’t
easily
interconnect
and
don’t
generate
standardized
types
of
signals.
As
a
result,
the
interpretation
of
the
varied
risk
signals
is
siloed
across
different
events
along
the
digital
user
journey.
This
lack
of
an
integrated
approach
to
managing
risk
along
the
digital
user
journey
hinders
the
adoption
of
continuous
adaptive
trust
principles
and
adds
undue
risk
into
the
system.
Various,
disconnected
identity
tools
prohibit
you
from
creating
that
consistent
user
experience
and
security
controls.
Orchestration
solutions
improve
the
efficacy
and
efficiency
of
risk
management
along
digital
user
journeys.

Identity
orchestration

Identity
and
access
management
projects
are
complex
enough
with
many
taking
12-18
months.
They
require
skilled
staff
to
solve
today’s
identity
challenges
such
as
integrating
IAM
silos
together
and
modernizing
access
to
legacy
applications.
Many
of
the
solutions
out
there
are
not
helpful
and
actually
create
more
vendor
lock-in.
What
is
really
needed
is
an
open
integration
ecosystem
that
allows
for
flexibility
and
integrations
that
are
simple
and
require
fewer
skills
to
accomplish.
This
is
where
an

identity
fabric
and

identity
orchestration
come
into
play.
Orchestration
is
the
critical
component
and
the
integration
glue
for
an
identity
fabric.
Without
it,
building
an
identity
fabric
would
be
resource-intensive
and
costly.
Orchestration
allows
more
intelligent
decision-making
and
simplifies
everything
from
onboarding
to
offboarding
and
enables
you
to
build
consistent
security
policies.
Identity
orchestration
takes
the
burden
off
your
administrators
by
quickly
and
easily
automating
processes
at
scale.
This
enables
consistent,
frictionless
user
experiences,
while
improving
identity
risk
posture,
and
helping
you
avoid
vendor
lock-in. 

Benefits
of
identity
orchestration

Design
consistent,
frictionless
user
experiences

Identity
orchestration
enables
you
to
streamline
consistent
and
frictionless
experiences
for
your
workers,
partners
and
customers
across
the
entire
identity
lifecycle.
From
account
creation
to
login
to
passwordless
authentication
using
passkeys
to
account
management,
makes
it
easy
to
orchestrate
identity
journeys
across
your
identity
stack,
facilitating
a
frictionless
experience.
IBM’s
identity
orchestration
flow
designer
enables
you
to
build
consistent,
secure
authentication
journeys
for
users
regardless
of
the
application.
These
journeys
can
be
built
effortlessly
with
low-code,
no-code
orchestration
engines
to
simplify
administrative
burden.

Fraud
and
risk
protection

Orchestration
allows
you
to
combine
fraud
signals,
decisions
and
mitigation
controls,
such
as
various
types
of
authenticators
and
identity
verification
technologies.
You
can
clearly
define
how
trusted
individuals
are
granted
access
and
how
untrusted
users
are
mitigated
with
security
authentication.
This
approach
overlays
a
consistent
and
continuous
overlaying
risk
and
fraud
context
across
identity
journey.
IBM
Security®
Verify
orchestration
allows
you
to
bring
together
fraud
and
risk
signals
to
detect
threats.
It
also
provides
native,
modern
and
strong
phishing-resistant
risk-based
authentication
to
all
applications,
including
legacy
apps,
with
drag-and-drop
work-flows.

Avoid
vendor
lock-in
with
identity-agnostic
modernization

Organizations
have
invested
in
many
existing
tools
and
assets
across
their
IAM
stack.
This
can
range
from
existing
directories
to
legacy
applications
to
existing
fraud
signals,
to
name
a
few.
IBM
Security
Verify
identity
orchestration
enables
organizations
to
bring
their
existing
tools
to
apply
consistent,
continuous
and
contextual
orchestration
across
all
identity
journeys.
It
enables
you
to
easily
consolidate
and
unify
directories,
modernize
legacy
applications
and
streamline
third-party
integration
for

multifactor
authentication
(MFA),
and
risk
and
notification
systems.

Leverage
IBM
Security
Verify

IBM
Security
Verify
simplifies
IAM
with
orchestration
to
reduce
complexity,
improves
your
identity
risk
posture,
and
simplifies
the
user
journey
by
enabling
you
to
easily
integrate
multiple
identity
system
providers
(IdPs)
across
hybrid
environments
through
low-code
or
no-code
experiences.

IBM
provides
identity-agnostic
modernization
tools
enabling
you
to
manage,
migrate
and
enforce
consistent
identity
security
from
one
IAM
solution
to
another
while
complementing
your
existing
identity
tools.
By
consolidating
user
journeys
and
policies,
you
can
maintain
security
consistency
across
all
systems
and
applications,
creating
frictionless
user
experiences
and
security
controls
across
your
entire
identity
landscape.

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IBM
Security
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