Identity Governance and Administration with IBM Verify Identity Governance

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Identity Governance and Administration with IBM Verify Identity Governance
Manage digital identities, access rights, and compliance processes with an integrated IGA approach

Identity Governance and Administration with IBM Verify Identity Governance

As organizations move toward hybrid and multicloud environments, the number of digital identities used by employees, business partners, contractors and applications continues to grow rapidly. This growth makes the questions that IT and information security teams need to answer even more critical:
  • Who has access to corporate systems?
  • Which applications and data can each user access?
  • Why were these access rights granted, and who approved them?
  • Are users' current access rights still appropriate for their roles?
  • Are access rights removed promptly when users leave the organization or change roles?
  • Are critical duties and privileges concentrated under a single user?
  • Are access decisions recorded in a way that can be demonstrated to auditors?

IBM Verify Identity Governance helps organizations answer these questions through a centralized, automated and auditable Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) infrastructure.
 

IBM's Current IGA Solution: IBM Verify Identity Governance

IBM no longer offers the identity lifecycle and account provisioning capabilities previously positioned under IBM Security Identity Manager (ISIM) as a separate product under the ISIM name. These capabilities are now positioned within the IBM Verify product family under IBM Verify Identity Governance.

IBM Verify Identity Governance brings together identity lifecycle management, access provisioning, access requests, approval processes, access governance, certification, segregation of duties, risk analysis, auditing and reporting in a unified IGA solution. It enables organizations to manage more cohesively the processes that were previously handled through separate operational identity management (ISIM) and access governance (ISVG/IGI) components.
 

IBM Verify Product Family

IBM Verify provides an identity-first platform approach for protecting human and non-human identities across web, mobile, on-premises and hybrid enterprise environments. The platform brings together a range of IAM capabilities, including identity governance, authentication, adaptive risk assessment, authorization, auditing and reporting.

The main solution areas within the IBM Verify product family include:
  • Workforce identity and access management
  • Customer identity and access management
  • Identity governance and lifecycle management
  • Identity threat and risk detection
  • Multifactor and passwordless authentication
  • Adaptive, risk-based access
  • Identity orchestration
  • Enterprise directory services
  • Privileged identity and access security
  • Protection of non-human and machine identities

This approach enables organizations to manage identity through an integrated Identity Fabric model instead of relying on disconnected tools.
 

What Is IBM Verify Identity Governance?

IBM Verify Identity Governance is a comprehensive Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) solution that manages the complete lifecycle of users and access rights, aligns access decisions with corporate policies and makes compliance processes auditable.

The solution covers the entire identity lifecycle, from creating user accounts and periodically reviewing access rights to managing role changes and offboarding. User access and activity can be managed, audited and reported through lifecycle, compliance and analytics capabilities.
 

Identity Lifecycle Management

IBM Verify Identity Governance centrally manages onboarding, role changes and offboarding for employees, contractors, business partners and other user types. Based on information received from an authoritative source, such as a human resources system:
  • New user identities can be created.
  • User accounts can be provisioned automatically to the relevant systems.
  • Access rights can be updated when a user's department, job title or role changes.
  • Temporary assignments and time-bound access can be managed.
  • Accounts and access rights can be disabled automatically when a user leaves the organization.
  • The creation of orphaned, unused or unowned accounts can be reduced.
Automated onboarding and offboarding help users gain faster access to the resources they need while ensuring that access belonging to departing personnel is removed promptly.
 

Automated Provisioning and Deprovisioning

IBM Verify Identity Governance enables approved access decisions to be applied automatically to target systems. Enterprise directories, operating systems, databases, business applications and cloud services can be connected to the identity management infrastructure through connectors, adapters, APIs and standard protocols.

The following operations can be automated:
  • Creating and updating user accounts
  • Assigning group and role memberships
  • Adding or removing entitlements
  • Suspending or closing accounts
  • Managing passwords
  • Reconciling identity data with connected systems
IBM also provides integration options for on-premises targets such as Active Directory, LDAP and Oracle through API- and SCIM-based provisioning.
 

Access Request and Approval Workflows

Users, or authorized managers acting on their behalf, can request the applications, roles or entitlements they need through a self-service access catalog. Requests can be routed for approval to different stakeholders, such as the user's manager, application owner, data owner, information security team, human resources department or compliance and risk manager.

Workflows can be configured according to the user's department and responsibilities, the risk level of the requested resource, segregation-of-duties policies and the organization's approval matrix. Automatically applying an approved request to the relevant system reduces manual IT work and processing errors.
 

Role and Entitlement Management

Managing every user access right individually can become complex and unsustainable, particularly in large organizations. IBM Verify Identity Governance helps organizations manage access through roles aligned with users' responsibilities:
  • Business roles and IT roles can be defined.
  • Roles can be associated with applications and access entitlements.
  • Users can be assigned baseline access appropriate to their responsibilities.
  • Overprivileged users can be identified.
  • Unused or conflicting roles can be analyzed.
  • Role changes can be linked to governance processes.
Role-based management helps simplify the access model and supports the consistent application of corporate authorization policies.
 

Activity-Based Access Governance

IBM Verify Identity Governance provides an approach that complements traditional role-based segregation-of-duties models with business activities. Technical entitlements can be associated with activities that business units and auditors understand, such as “create purchase requisition,” “approve purchase order,” “create supplier record” or “execute payment.”

This enables organizations to:
  • Evaluate technical entitlements in the context of business processes.
  • Understand risky access combinations more easily.
  • Involve business units more effectively in access decisions.
  • Make audit and compliance reports more business-oriented.
IBM positions activity-based governance as an approach that helps make controls easier to manage and more meaningful to auditors and compliance stakeholders.
 

Segregation of Duties Controls

Segregation of Duties (SoD) controls help prevent conflicting responsibilities, such as initiating, approving and completing critical transactions, from being concentrated under a single user. With IBM Verify Identity Governance:
  • Conflicting roles and entitlements can be defined.
  • New access requests can be checked for risk before approval.
  • Access violations among existing users can be identified.
  • Risk acceptance or compensating control processes can be established for violations.
  • SoD risks in critical enterprise applications, including SAP, can be managed.
These capabilities help reduce the risk of errors, privilege misuse, insider threats and fraud.
 

Access Certification and Periodic Reviews

The fact that a user needed access in the past does not mean that access is still required today. Role changes, temporary projects and manual assignments can cause unnecessary access rights to accumulate over time.

IBM Verify Identity Governance enables organizations to run access certification campaigns based on users, groups, roles, applications or risk levels. Authorized reviewers can approve access, request its removal, redirect the decision to another responsible party, record the reason for a decision and prioritize high-risk access. Recurring certification periods can be defined for high-risk applications, and concurrent user- or group-based campaigns can be conducted.

Identity Analytics and Risk Visibility

IBM Verify Identity Governance helps analyze the relationships among identities, accounts, roles, entitlements and applications. Identity analytics can help identify:
  • Overprivileged users
  • Access that is inconsistent with a user's responsibilities
  • Unused entitlements
  • Risky access combinations
  • Unowned and orphaned accounts
  • Policy violations
  • Anomalous user behavior
Risk-based visibility enables security and compliance teams to prioritize the most critical identity and access risks.
 

Auditing, Reporting and Regulatory Compliance

IBM Verify Identity Governance supports the recording of identity and access transactions and the creation of reports that can be presented to auditors. The solution helps answer questions such as:
  • When was access requested, and by whom?
  • Who approved the request?
  • Under which policy or role was the entitlement granted?
  • When was the entitlement applied to the target system?
  • When was the access last reviewed?
  • Is there a risky access combination or an SoD violation?
  • Was the user's access removed after they left the organization?
These records support access control, accountability and audit requirements under Türkiye's Personal Data Protection Law (KVKK), ISO 27001, PCI DSS, SOX and sector-specific regulations. However, deploying the solution alone does not guarantee regulatory compliance. Processes must be designed in line with the organization's policies and applicable regulations.

Benefits for Organizations

IBM Verify Identity Governance transforms identity management from a basic account creation and termination operation into an enterprise security and governance process. Key benefits include:
  • Automating user lifecycle operations
  • Accelerating onboarding and role-change processes
  • Removing access promptly when users leave the organization
  • Reducing manual IT operations and human error
  • Limiting unnecessary and excessive access while supporting the principle of least privilege
  • Detecting SoD violations before access is granted
  • Standardizing access review processes
  • Providing centralized visibility into identity risks
  • Making audit evidence easier to prepare
  • Establishing shared governance across business units, IT and information security teams
 

BBS IBM Verify Identity Governance Services

Bilgi Birikim Sistemleri (BBS) approaches identity governance projects not merely as product installations, but as end-to-end transformation initiatives encompassing people, processes, policies, applications and integrations.

Analysis and IGA Roadmap

  • Assessment of the existing identity and access infrastructure
  • Analysis of user lifecycle processes
  • Identification of identity sources and target systems
  • Assessment of access risk and compliance requirements
  • Design of role, entitlement and approval models
  • Development of a phased migration and implementation roadmap

Architecture Design and Implementation

  • Solution architecture design
  • System installation and configuration
  • Design of high-availability and cluster architectures
  • Preparation of development, test and production environments
  • Security and performance configuration

Integration and Custom Development

  • Identity feed integration with human resources systems
  • Integration with Active Directory, LDAP and enterprise directories
  • Connectivity with enterprise applications, databases and cloud services
  • Connector, adapter, API and custom integration development
  • Integration with service management and workflow systems
  • Development of organization-specific interfaces, processes and reports

Governance Model Design

  • Design of access request and approval workflows
  • Development of role and entitlement models
  • Definition of SoD rules
  • Configuration of access certification campaigns
  • Implementation of risk policies and control processes
  • Preparation of audit and compliance reports

Migration and Modernization

  • Assessment of existing ISIM and ISVG environments
  • Development of an IBM Verify Identity Governance migration plan
  • Analysis of existing integrations and customizations
  • Migration of identity, role, entitlement and policy data
  • Version upgrades and modernization initiatives
  • Post-migration validation and optimization

Training, Maintenance and Support

  • System administrator and end-user training
  • Health-check services
  • Performance and capacity assessments
  • Version and security updates
  • Troubleshooting and technical support
  • Maintenance and consulting services
 

Why BBS?

The success of an IGA project depends not only on the technology used, but also on identity data quality, a correctly designed access model, application integrations and the participation of business units in governance processes. With its:
  • Experience in IBM identity and security solutions
  • Technical expertise in legacy ISIM and ISVG environments
  • IBM Verify Identity Governance migration and modernization capabilities
  • Experience with enterprise applications and complex integrations
  • Ability to develop organization-specific processes and applications
  • Post-project maintenance and technical support services
BBS supports organizations throughout every stage of an identity governance project, from analysis and production rollout to continuous improvement.

Manage Your Identity and Access Risks with BBS

Contact BBS experts to automate your identity lifecycle processes, reduce unnecessary access, centrally manage access certifications or migrate your existing ISIM/ISVG infrastructure to IBM Verify Identity Governance.

Let us assess your existing infrastructure and requirements together and build a secure, scalable and auditable identity governance architecture for your organization.

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