Higher Ed's Complex and Continuous Identity Churn
Managing identity lifecycles for non-employees (such as professors, researchers, students, exchange students, vendors, volunteers, and even “things” like such as service accounts) in higher education organizations is very challenging due to the complexity of the environment. In particular, there is a lot of identity churn as the majority of the population only plans to be associated with the organization for four years (or less), many of them will have multiple roles/relationships (student, teaching assistant, researcher) in short and sometimes overlapping periods of time, and advanced research could bring together resources from both inside and outside of the organization.
Higher education needs to provide their third-party, non-employees with access to the right data, internal systems, and physical assets in a timely manner while at the same time ensuring these users are thoroughly vetted, don’t receive more access than they need, and most importantly, their access is terminated once it is no longer required. A higher education organization must consider stringent compliance and regulatory governance and be prepared for audits of their laboratories and research centers.
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Our solutions provide a comprehensive set of capabilities that help higher education organizations improve the operational efficiency and reduce the cost and risk of managing third party identities. Of particular importance to higher education organizations is the ability to manage bulk uploads for new users, support advanced lifecycle management as the same individual may have multiple roles with the organization, and most of all, maintain the safety and security of the community.
With SecZetta, higher ed organizations have better transparency into the dynamic relationships they have with each individual third-party identity and are thus able to make well-informed, risk-based decisions about provisioning, verifying, and deprovisioning access.
