Access Management means giving users exactly the resources that they are entitled to while ensuring that other resources are not compromised. Access Management can become very complex in large heterogeneous environments due to the variety of diverse applications, platforms, resources, and user roles.
A good Access Management solution will provide a common infrastructure upon which access rules can be defined and enforced across all of your applications and platforms and for all types of resources. This will improve your security and simplify the administrative burden of security. Furthermore, it will also save you on future development costs, because applications no longer need to handle security programmatically.
Access Management and Single Sign On solutions are often (but not always!) implemented together or at least linked together. Because SSO solutions are involved with enabling users to access resources, the mechanisms used for SSO can often also be used for access management.
Access Management is also closely linked with Identity Management. In reality, they are two sides of the same coin. Identity Management assigns rights to users, and Access Management assigns resources to rights. The result of the two is a complete management solution for assigning users to resources.
Skyworth TTG specializes in the Access Management technology from CA Technologies, CA SiteMinder™.
