According to experts, when businesses work with IT consulting professionals to create a comprehensive approach – with HR and IT working together — to identity management, they will be able to decrease their risk and also save money.

A lot, if not most companies have a really complicated and haphazard way of handling ID management when it comes to working with those in IT consulting.  They create many passwords and a huge administrative job for their IT departments – outsourced OR in house.

According to Oracle UK’s security head Daniel Roberts, an average organization has tens or hundreds of systems, each with its own ID management system including passwords and other elements.  This fact causes a lot of confusion and a lot of money to be spent.  Roberts said that because of employee turnover in many cases, data access rights become muddled.  Often, without HR departments and IT consulting professionals working together to keep information streamlined and ever-updated, a lot of employees moving between departments or coming and going are allowed to keep access rights and look unauthorized at a lot of data.  This opens up firms to internal fraud and going against compliance rules.

A centralized ID management tool can and should be used to automate access rights and make sure they are immediately updated as soon as someone changes departments or leaves a company entirely. HR has to work with IT consulting professionals because it has information on employee changes.  The process of integrating the work IT consulting does with the work HR does and creating a real process for ID management is critical in order to reduce risk and maximize the budget dollars of a company.  

Added By:  Joshua Feinberg