Identity and Access Solutions

 

Information exists almost everywhere in an organization — on servers, laptops, desktops, removable devices, and in emails. Users need access to this information from everywhere, to share it where appropriate, and to achieve maximum productivity with the assets they have. However, in such an environment, confidential information can leak and result in the loss of intellectual property, reduced productivity, and increased business costs: all of which can result in an inability to meet growing regulatory requirements.

 

In addition, organizations need to provide efficient and secure access to their internal applications and data for external entities, such as business partners, customers, and mobile employees. Users need to access diverse systems and resources on the corporate network, from different types of devices.

 

Microsoft has fundamentally changed the approach to identity and access management with its Identity & Access Management and Information Protection Solutions.

 

Microsoft has two solutions that help customers with their identity and access needs:

 

The Identity & Access Management Solution enables your employees to use a single identity across their organization as well as on partners’ networks, and provides seamless, always-on connectivity. It helps enterprises reduce ongoing security costs by enabling them to centrally manage identity stores and simultaneously empower employees to resolve identity and password issues without IT assistance.

 

The Information Protection Solution enables you and your employees to have secure access from virtually any location and virtually any device, and protects data wherever it resides, wherever it goes, and wherever it is used—on servers, in email, or on a device. With capabilities built into the Windows platform and applications, the Information Protection solution easily integrates with existing infrastructure, and helps manage compliance with persistent, identity-centric embedded usage policies and endpoint protection to enable secure collaboration and communication through a simplified user experience.