Security companies and regulatory organizations (most notably NIST) have emphasized the advantages of a zero-trust security architecture for years. No one entity (human or non-human) has any standing privileges in the zero trust system. In other words, rights are granted dynamically when needed, only to the appropriate level, and then they are removed when no longer required.
A decision point for policy enforcement and a repository of permissions (like a password vault) are needed for zero trust (such as a provisioning solution). Conventional PAM solutions can solve the first issue. Conventional IGA or directory management systems may handle the second issue. But when the two are combined, zero trust becomes actual.
One Identity is a unified platform combining the best from all worlds. PAM, IGA, Active directory, and Access management – core market pillars that fall under the umbrella of identity access and management.
Zero Trust architecture remains one of the most exciting solutions available to companies.
If your PAM or IGA vendor says they deliver zero trust, don’t believe them. Test it for yourself! Ensure that your provisioning solution can decide whether the users who must obtain credentials from your PAM solution are suitable. Additionally, even if your IGA solution can identify someone with no standing privileges, it is typically unable to issue such credentials when necessary.
Here’s a case when zero trust materialized:
- All relevant administrator credentials can be stored in one Identity Safeguard for a system’s administrator to enter and perform their duties.
- Yet Another Active Roles is a dynamic provisioning engine for AD and an identity solution.
- Cloud AD. That the power of active directory management tools.
Active Roles add users to groups with no status privileges when setting them up in AD. Active Roles follows the current policy to place the user in a periodic category when rights are necessary, whether the request comes from a PAM system, an ITSM system, a ticketing system, the HR system, or any other source.
Once a user has been added to the group, One Identity Safeguard issues the necessary credentials (so the user now has rights), and the user can carry out the necessary actions. To guarantee that only permitted actions are executed, the group membership might be time-restricted, contain dynamic permissions, and even start a session audit.
Zero trust, in this instance, is actual, not simply marketing speak with many asterisks showing which half you missed.
The logic that brought zero trust architecture to the forefront of cyber security was the reality that You will undoubtedly face an attack. That much is certain. One will inevitably pass some time. Of course, you should have a reliable backup strategy in place if the worst happens. But it doesn’t mean you don’t make an effort to repel these assaults in the first instance. You shouldn’t just leave your front door open and pour the evil guys a cup of tea since you know they’re coming. The door must simply be locked.
That level of protection will inevitably secure your assets, whether cloud, on-prem of hybrid. It is the prerogative of zero trust security models to trim any gap by uniting PAM and IGA solutions and building bridges with active directories.
It is worth mentioning that in the efforts to minimize the number of accounts and assign privileges to users, various issues may spur. One solution to such a problem is the Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) which enables access to multiple applications using a single login account.
