Avatar Identity Manager

Reduce IT administration time, increase security and end user efficiency

Overview
Identity management has become a very important issue for IT departments. As the number of applications has grown throughout the years, so has the number of end users. This places increased responsibility on the IT help desk to manage many aspects of security, including IDs and passwords.

There are many challenges associated with properly maintaining identities, especially in the areas of creating, maintaining and deleting accounts. One ongoing question for IT managers is: ‘How do I validate user credentials in such a way as to protect the organization, while at the same time easing the pain involved in having to authenticate users to multiple systems?’

A coordinated identity management strategy can substantially reduce the overall administrative work required to manage user information. This applies to all organizations, including those that have started using or are considering using centralized identity management servers.

Avatar Identity Manager links Avatar to an identity management server where centralized IDs and passwords are maintained for end users, eliminating the need to support different logon credentials within Avatar. Avatar Identity Manager links to the identity management server via the standard Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP), including Microsoft’s Active Directory, so IDs and passwords can be in synch with other applications. Using RADplus (Avatar’s administration tool), the administrator can easily select users from the identity server to have access to Avatar, and changes made to those users’ credentials on the identity server will be in synch with Avatar.

The benefits of using Avatar Identity Manager for centralized identity management with your Avatar application include:

• Reduced administration time required to add a new user to multiple systems
• Fewer help desk request for lost IDs/passwords
• Improved security across applications due to consistent authentication policy
• Reduced time to remove a person from the system
• Enhanced end user experience by reducing the number of IDs/passwords.

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