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Role Management and Risk - A Key Enabler for Accountability, Policy Alignment

SailPoint

As you consider the technologies required to meet your IT governance, risk management, and compliance (GRC) requirements, it’s important to remember that role management is not an end goal in itself, but rather a means to an end. By providing valuable business context and facilitating collaboration between business and technology groups, roles can help your organization move in the direction of stronger accountability, policy alignment, and transparency. However, in and of itself, a role management project will not help you address IT security risk. To effectively manage user access across complex IT environments, role management must work hand-in-glove with automated workflow, policy enforcement, analytics and reporting, and risk management capabilities. This holistic approach helps organizations automate
compliance processes, detect and prevent policy violations, remediate and mitigate control weaknesses, and provide auditable evidence of compliance. Think of role management as one key component in the overall compliance solution set you will need to reduce compliance costs, focus controls, and better manage access to critical resources in the context of true business risk

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