IT Security, Access Management and True Prevention of Fraud

Running a business enterprise in today’s fast paced world takes people, process and technology. The extended enterprise involves employees, contractors, suppliers, partners, facilities and assets dispersed over large geographies. The Business function with the organization is racing ahead to keep up with operational demands with scant little time, if any, to focus on threats that lurk both outside and inside the organization. Threats that unfortunately pose a clear and present danger in todays highly inter-connected world.

Executives and boards have limited visibility into security and risk. They must rely on CIOs and CISOs to articulate the challenges they face as different parts of the organization must comply with mandates, regulations, and policies. Risk, compliance, and audit; physical security; and IT operations function as silos. Addressing today’s real world threats requires a new approach – a holistic view of risk that means addressing the threats that lie in between these silos. Organizations can no longer afford to live with these risks.

Access Controls
In the climate of growing demands for more regulation, organizational policies and mandates, the cost to prevent fraud while maintaining compliance continues to soar. Case in point are access requests that can start anywhere in the organization as a result of a new hire, position change, process change, acquisition or due to integration with existing applications that once operated in silos. Segregation of Duties decisions must extend across just the enterprise application platforms to include legacy systems.
The challenge of keeping up with the flood of access requests keeps IT and Business managers completely consumed in endless discussions while manual processes make the entire task fraught with risk and hard to scale.

AlertEnterprise delivers an access management suite that includes unifying access requests across multi-vendor applications, conducting risk analysis across IT applications and extending that analysis to physical access controls. Additionally, segregation of duties analysis and risk analysis prior to enabling access make up unique intelligent provisioning capabilities.

• Unify and analyze access requests from disparate systems
• Streamline Onboarding / Offboarding process
• Decisions about roles, access, entitlements, access to facilities and assets can be automated
• Decisions on access and authorizations can be controlled uniformly from a central point

Fraud Detection and Segregation of Duties (SOD)
Controlling access is the most effective way to reduce fraud across the enterprise. Automating the process of detecting, analyzing and remediating segregation of duties (SOD) violations requires automating the process of creating controls, monitoring transactions, monitoring privileged user activity with enhanced audit and mitigating controls tracking.

AlertEnterprise delivers a risk and vulnerability assessment solution that can identify access risks such as Segregation of Duties, Critical Access, Over Access, Super user access etc. across various ERPs, IT Applications, Facility Access Systems and Assets. AlertEnterprise deliver configurable rule sets that can be customized to key business applications to discover violations and generate alerts to decision makers. The rules based environment guarantees that changes to the underlying applications can be accommodated with simple rule changes.

• Powerful access risk models to include IT, facility and asset management systems
• Best practice set of risks and rules for SOX, PCI, ISO, NIST and other regulatory standards
• Visual reports to facilitate better IT and Business alignment
• Workflow driven risk mitigation and remediation

Privileged User Access Management
A privileged user is a system administrator, programmer or support technician who has access to the most core functions of the server, operating system or enterprise applications that host the business processes or operational processes of the company. The majority of IT sabotage crimes revolve around an insider working in a privileged capacity, with some level of expectations from the enterprise. Incidents may also occur as a result of an unintentional act that has the same effect as a malicious one. Often during a transfer, demotion, or reorganization, expectations are no longer being met and the individual becomes disgruntled.

Organizations usually do not have the ability to monitor privileged access to critical enterprise applications and systems that extend across multi-vendor lines. Monitoring privileged session logs is a laborious and mundane task that is hard to do. System administrators and privileged users have the knowledge and access to commit malicious inside attacks. They can also inadvertently change systems and configurations in ways that compromise security. When data centers lack methods to prevent and detect these problems, insider attacks can cost enterprises millions of dollars, violate regulatory requirements, and potentially damage its reputation.

AlertEnterprise delivers a multi-domain, multi-platform privileged user management application. It enables organizations to automate the monitoring of individuals entrusted with the most critical access in the organization. Auditors and regulators have stepped up the focus on closing this gap.  AlertMonitor enforces the least privilege principle in an organization and ensures business run with minimal risk even if privileged critical access is used to in an operational environment. The application delivers compliance with various regulations and monitoring of supervisory access across IT and physical access controls systems.

• Grant and monitor temporary emergency access to ERP, Legacy Applications and OS’s
• Extend emergency access monitoring to physical access and industrial control systems
• Identify and manage complex access risk and compliance violations
• Actively enforce policies with mitigating controls like video surveillance and proximity sensors.