How to securely enable your business*

Staying competitive in today’s business environment often requires opening IT infrastructures to employees, customers and business partners. By providing these constituents with direct access to the information they need, it is possible to increase their satisfaction as well as reduce operating costs and increase productivity. For many companies, the challenge then becomes ensuring the security of information assets and meeting identity management regulatory requirements.

If this is your situation

• You want to increase employee, partner and customer satisfaction by encouraging secure self service.
• You want to make sure that the right people have controlled access to the right resources.
• You must manage user access effectively to support regulatory compliance requirements.
• You need to reduce operating costs as well as the cost and complexity of regulatory compliance.
• You need multi-tiered security and control systems in place to prevent security exposures and enforce organizational policies.

How PricewaterhouseCoopers can help you

PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) Advisory professionals have implemented identity management solutions for many Fortune 500 companies. With our deep industry knowledge and experience, we rapidly assess an organization’s business process controls, technology infrastructure and identity management processes to identify areas that need to improve in order to reduce risk and increase compliance.

By helping organizations implement effective identity management solutions, PwC reduces operating costs associated with manual and time-consuming tasks; improves productivity by integrating workflow processes to provide fast, automated self-service to users; and helps boost customer satisfaction through shorter response times and more rapid service.

Services we Provide Include the Following:

• Authenticating user identities with a range of mechanisms, such as tokens, biometrics and Public Key Infrastructure
• Developing user access policies and procedures, rules and responsibilities and a standardized role structure that helps organizations meet and enforce security standards
• Centralizing user data stores in a single enterprise directory that enables increased efficiencies in user administration, access control and authentication
• Reducing IT operating costs and increasing efficiency by implementing effective user management to support self-service and automate workflow, and by provisioning and instituting flexible user administration