What is Identity Governance and Administration (IGA)?

Identity and access management (IAM) and identity governance and administration (IGA) work hand-in-hand to control access to resources, prevent data breaches, and comply with regulations. IGA isn't something offered by Ping, but we work with partners that provide this crucial solution. Read on to learn more about IGA, its importance in any security strategy, and how IGA and IAM work together.

Identity governance and administration (IGA) enables and secures digital identities for all users, applications, and data. IGA enables enterprises to control access and mitigate risk by automating the creation and management of user accounts, roles, and entitlements. This allows companies to streamline onboarding, offboarding, provisioning, policy management, access governance, and other identity security measures.

Identity governance helps support overall identity management, IT security, and regulatory compliance. Its purpose is to ensure that identity and access management (IAM) policies are monitored and enforced to make sure users only have access to the resources they are authorized to access.

IGA can be used for: 

• Onboarding and offboarding employees

• Auditing and compliance reporting

• Managing access to resources across IT environments (on-premises, SaaS, and cloud-based applications)

• Visibility into provisioning and entitlements

• Reducing risk and strengthening security

Ping 's identity and access management (IAM) solution works with SailPoint and our other IGA partners to provide a comprehensive platform for enterprise-level scale and security without expensive and time-intensive integrations.

• Secure and Frictionless Access:
  Users can access applications from any device at any time with advanced authentication workflows that increase security using multi-factor authentication (MFA).

   

• Greater Visibility Into Entitlements: View user access to make sure logins are properly authenticated and permissions are appropriate for each user 's current job/role, which helps during onboarding, job changes, and offboarding.

   

• Increased Governance and Control: Improve efficiency and access control through automation of processes, including password management,  provisioning, and access requests and certification.

   

• Compliance and Tracking: Enforce regulatory and privacy compliance, adhere to business policies, and maintain an audit trail of every user.

Learn more about how IAM and IGA work together for hybrid environments here.