Why do companies need to shore up their Identity management in #WFH age?
by Piyush Rakhecha in General
The term social distancing was unheard of a few months ago, but COVID 19 has made this the most trending term and now we are all busy following the protocol of maintaining distance. Given this scenario, a majority of organizations have opted for employees to work from home where possible. This gave rise to the new corporate age called work from home age. While some organizations might have had defined remote working policies in place, a majority have had this imposed on them suddenly due to the epidemic. Even though work from home is helping maintain the efficiency, the sudden move has increased the security risks as well.
Identity Management crisis during Covid-19
Many are adjusting to the new normal of working from home in order to prevent and reduce the spread of the virus. Identity Management systems main role is to manage digital identities in a secure environment. The sudden move to allow access from anywhere has created some new risks and also exposed some inherent inefficiencies. Some of the challenges faced by organizations are:
- Logging in from remote addresses and unsecured networks expose the companies to the risk of losing control over the data center that contains sensitive corporate data. And under these unprecedented times, cyber attackers are always waiting for an opportunity to take advantage of the vulnerabilities.
- Scaling up the remote working protocols and providing necessary equipment is a tedious process as a large pool of employees have to suddenly shift from offices to remote working.
- A mandated structure is required to maintain high level security and this is accomplished by defining the authorization policies for employees functioning remotely under various roles and designations.
- Lack of automation increases the time required to authorize the identity of an employee trying to access the company data for work. Continued manual check costs the company both time and money.
- A remote working employee needs robust application software which is mobile and dynamic to use and security may have to be configured according to different security and authentication protocols.
Organizations will find it quite challenging to identify and rectify the loopholes by themselves, as the internal IT team may not be aware of all the gaps and intricacies involved. Thus to ensure your security and solve your concern on identity management, Nuage can guide you at every step.
With our cybersecurity experts collaborating with your team, we will help guide you right from the assessment of your requirements to deploying a securing cloud platform. To find out about the various steps in detail, write to us at info@nuagebiz.tech