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OpenText Identity Governance (NetIQ)

Protect data with simplified compliance and access review processes

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Overview

Managing access to sensitive data across an organization is complex and time-consuming, often leading to security risks and compliance challenges. Ensuring the right users have the right access—while minimizing manual oversight—is critical.

OpenText™ Identity Governance (NetIQ) offers a precise and efficient solution for managing user access. By automating reviews, approvals, and policy enforcement, it ensures only authorized users access critical resources, reducing security risks and human error. It simplifies compliance with regulatory standards and provides real-time visibility into access, helping IT teams swiftly address risks, cut down manual processes, and reduce costs.

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Why OpenText Identity Governance?

Real-time identity and access management provides constant, consistent reconciliation, which is essential for risk management and attestation.

  • Unified
    comprehensive platform
    Governs access to all resources across your environment, whether deployed on-premises or via SaaS.
  • Automated
    continuous compliance monitoring
    Automates access certification processes and adjusts security controls in real-time, ensuring continuous compliance and reducing organizational risk.
  • Billions
    of identities can be managed via scaling
    Manages billions of identities, streamlining access requests, certifications, and lifecycle management for large enterprises.

Use cases

Ensuring the right users have the right access—while minimizing manual oversight—is critical. By automating reviews, approvals, and policy enforcement, only authorized users access critical resources, reducing security risks and human error.

  • Align access permissions continuously with regulatory requirements via automated access reviews and policy-driven governance. Automation reduces manual effort for tracking compliance so IT teams can quickly generate accurate reports and demonstrate adherence to industry standards.

  • Mitigate security risks with deep visibility into access permissions and their justifications. The solution leverages intelligent algorithms to detect and address anomalies or unauthorized access, reducing the likelihood of data breaches.

  • Reduce time spent on manual data collection and analysis with automated record-keeping and policy enforcement that ensure all necessary audit trails are readily available.

  • Eliminate manual processes and streamline access control workflows to enable faster response times to access requests and reduce the risk of delays. This increased efficiency improves operational effectiveness and supports a more agile and responsive IT environment.

    Key features

    Overhaul how identities are continually managed with access governance, entitlement collection, approval management and analytics.

    Access governance

    Governs access to all resources across your environment, whether you choose to deploy on premises or via SaaS.

    Entitlement collection

    Collects and visualizes identities and entitlements across your entire environment.

    Approval management

    Automates application fulfillment with a user-friendly, self-service access request and approval system.

    Analytics access

    Reduces rubber stamping with analytics that provide business context and risks associated with each request.

    Continuous governance

    Triggers access reviews on high-risk changes, with interventions needed only for exceptions.

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