Access Management Buyer's Guide

That phone in your hand is a vulnerability. So is your laptop, your colleague's home computer, and every other device an employee, customer, or partner may use to access your network, applications, or data.

The environment your security team works hard to defend is changing constantly. Employees are no longer bound to desktop systems. They're working from everywhere, at any hour, and on virtually any device.

So too are threat actors who want to gain access to your networks, applications, and data. These attackers are constantly innovating to find weak spots in your existing defenses, such as recent efforts to bypass weaker multifactor authentication (MFA) systems. Anything less than strong security will leave you and your organization unnecessarily open to attacks.

For security and IT teams, the questions this changing environment poses are many.

• How can you extend access only to those endpoints that are compliant with your security policies, while also verifying the identity of the people who are using them?
• How can you ensure that smart phones and other devices your employees use daily—but that aren't managed by IT—won't put you at risk?
• How can you make authentication and security protections userfriendly enough to ensure people will be willing participants in securing your enterprise?
• How can you ensure that strong security doesn't threaten productivity?
• Lastly, how can you tell which access management offering is right for you? (That may be the hardest part, but we've figured out how to make that easier too.)

This eBook aims to answer all those questions.