SaaS-based identity and access management: solutions, trends and recommendations.

Beyond the benefits from the two-factor authentication, it is obvious that, the growing issue of password reuse is boring and using the same password across personal and work applications exposes the company.

Certain employees are indifferent when it comes to protecting sensitive corporate data, including personal information of customers. 

Based on these realities, it is clear that, employees and companies need the convenience of a single place to store passwords, while IT organizations need the controls to ensure strong, unique passwords are being used.

The following capabilities are recommended:  

• An intuitive, self-service password reset portal to increase user productivity through convenient self-service reset and password change options;
• Mobile/off-network and desktop support to reduce operational costs and unburden the help desk by reducing calls relating to password requests;
• Centralized access policies and controls that strengthen security through consistent enforcement of strong password policies to unify and centralize password management across data center and cloud resources;
• Password intercept and synch to improve end user satisfaction by automatically synchronizing password changes across all on-premises and cloud-based applications; and
• Integrated single sign-on (SSO) that reduces the need to rely on application-specific passwords while simplifying how users access their apps.

SailPoint with its IdentityNow Password Management Service, paves its way in this vertical.