Role of IAM in an Organization

Many identities are possessed by the user in this digital world. The access rights and the digital identities requires to be managed and controlled at all levels. Managing the identities and controlling the access rights is Identity and Access Management. It is essential for all organizations with thousands of users and is the best practice to ensure control of user access. It identifies, authenticates, and authorizes users to access a resource in an organization. This in turn improves the efficiency of access management. The goal of this thesis was to study the role of identity and access management solutions in an organization. The main aim of the thesis was to find out how identity and access management works and implemented in an organization. Also, what are the risks and challenges when implementing these solutions were studied. Different security faucets which could be used in association with identity and access management were researched. Answer to some questions like how it could be implemented or what are the functions were researched. The use of the cloud to implement these solutions was also studied which protects the access to the resources on-premises and into the cloud. Various authentication methods were studied like multi-factor authentication, single sign-on, etc. The research was based on the work done during the internship in an organization with an identity and access management team. Based on the study and research the conclusion was made which included the benefits of identity and access management in the security and productivity of the organization. The practical part thesis was based on the survey questions answered by managers, the CEO, the IAM team and the IT administrators of an organization. Also, the employees who work in the organization answered the survey. It was done to observe how the accesses and privileges are given according to the job role at different levels