Identity management is a major topic for both business and government to manage and simplify access to their internal & external applications. The choice of the solution is crucial, since the populations concerned are quickly important (several million), especially as the identity of the "connected objects" can also be concerned. At the present time, the importance of identity management is increasing as a method of protecting assets, information, and premises of companies, which employ thousands of employees.
Due to the raising in demand for identity access management many organizations are also providing greater identity services. This method has many advantages, one of which is ease of management. "You can dismiss an employee and take away his means of access to the building. But if someone forgets to remove the means of access to the network, the employee can still enter the network and cause damage to the company. "The main advantage of integrating physical and logical access is the ease of identity access management at the highest level."
"You can dismiss an employee and take away his means of access to the building. The main task is to determine whether a person is what he claims to be and to decide whether to grant him access to critical facilities or to secure networks. Advanced technologies, such as multifactor authentication, help solve this problem. A user, or more generally an entity, will generally need to access several applications with specific authorizations for each of them, whether they are web applications or local applications. But if someone forgets to remove the means of access to the network, the employee can still enter the network and cause damage to the company. “The main advantage of integrating physical and logical access is the ease of identity management at the highest level."
"You can dismiss an employee and take away his means of access to the building. Typically, these credentials depend on the identity of that user and the context in which they authenticated. the procedure of authentication must remain transparent and ideally not involve a validation step to opening up access services they use for its mission.