Streamline identity life cycle management

Managing employees and their access privileges is a critical aspect of administration in organizations around the globe. It is a crucial part of identity governance and administration (IGA) to provision users, grant them access permissions, modify them during their tenure, and then remove all the privileges during deprovisioning.

The process of managing user identities and their evolving access privileges is called identity life cycle management. It covers the full life cycle of a user in a network and covers every aspect of identity life cycle management from the day they are on-boarded to their last day in the company. This also includes device identity life cycle management.

Why use an identity life cycle management solution

Managing identity and access provisioning life cycles can be a grueling task and can take up a lot of time and effort of the administrator. Using inefficient and manual processes to provision users and manage their privileges can be tiresome. Not having an automated process to re-provision access privileges if the users take up new roles, or remove the permissions altogether when they exit the company can make matters worse. If user account life cycle management is not done accurately and quickly, accounts of employees who no longer work in the company will remain in the network long after they are gone. Rogue or unhappy employees or contractors can exploit these out-of-use accounts and use their privileges to steal confidential data or perform a cyberattack.

This is why it is important to use an identity life cycle management solution to overcome these challenges. ManageEngine ADManager Plus, a digital identity life cycle management tool, can help you improve productivity and perform error-free IT operations. It also helps tighten the security of your organization by removing out-of-date user accounts and eliminating privilege creep.

ADManager Plus- Your identity governance and life cycle management solution

Identity and access life cycle management, when done manually, can be tedious and can add to the administrative workload. Manually creating user accounts for every new employee, applying appropriate permissions for them, modifying or revoking their access when required, and deleting stale user accounts can be a time-consuming and lengthy process. ADManager Plus helps you automate the identity and access provisioning life cycle in your organization.

With ADManager Plus, you can not only create users in bulk but also perform bulk user modification and deletion. Use templates for the creation and modification of digital identities to reduce discrepancies across the organization. Manage not only Active Directory and Microsoft 365 objects but also perform user provisioning for Google Workspace, all from a single window. You can automate the IAM life cycle steps using our automation and orchestration features. ADManager Plus also allows you to sync your employee data from your human capital management (HCM) applications for efficient administration.

How to perform identity life cycle management in ADManager Plus

Creating bulk users in Active Directory can involve a lot of PowerShell scripting, making it a burden for the administrators. ADManager Plus solves this issue as it allows you to create user accounts in bulk not only in AD, but also Microsoft 365, Exchange, Google Workspace, and Skype for Business without any PowerShell involved. You can even use templates for user creation to eliminate discrepancies across the organization.

Once user accounts have been created in your environment, you can perform user access life cycle management. Grant access privileges to the users and modify their permissions when required. If a user's role at work changes, you can alter their access permissions accordingly. Use the ADManager Plus IAM user life cycle management features to revoke privileges and delete the user accounts when they exit the company.

You can also create Microsoft 365 accounts for the AD users in the system and modify their attributes when necessary. Use the license management feature to assign, replace and revoke Microsoft 365 licenses selectively and in bulk.

Automating identity life cycle management

ADManager Plus' orchestration feature can help you automate IAM routines like employee on-boarding and off-boarding. It unifies cloud, identity, and IT orchestration in a single window and allows you to streamline various processes. You can create orchestration templates for employee provisioning and deprovisioning. On the other hand, the automation feature ensures that repetitive tasks can be automated and performed without human intervention. You can also use the automation feature for other scenarios, such as:

• Sending out an email to the IT administrator and team manager every time a new user is provisioned.
• Raising a request for creating user accounts in HCM applications like Halo ITSM.

Automation and orchestration in ADManager Plus

ADManager Plus allows users to automate Active Directory tasks with customizable approval-based workflows. Set the workflow of who can review the automated task and who should approve it, ensuring complete control of the automation processes in your organization. Automate predefined and repetitive AD tasks and share automations with technicians.

The orchestration feature, on the other hand, helps you streamline various business procedures for better performance. ADManager Plus' orchestration functionality includes orchestration profiles and templates. With orchestration templates, you can define the flow of actions, and the drag-and-drop actions make it user-friendly. The orchestration profiles help you set conditions that define the execution of specific actions. You can automate employee onboarding and offboarding, password resets across the organization and more with the orchestration feature.

Learn more about ADManager Plus automation and orchestration functionalities.

Integrating with HCM applications

A lot of organizations around the world depend on HCM applications to manage their employees. You can integrate your HCM application(s) like Zoho People, HaloITSM and Jira with ADManager Plus. This allows you to not only automate processes like employee provisioning and deprovisioning but also identifies deleted or modified user accounts in your HCM application and syncs it with your AD.

Know more about how to integrate HCM apps with ADManager Plus here.

Benefits of an IAM life cycle management tool like ADManager Plus

• Create user accounts in bulk.
• Manage access permissions with ease.
• Automate identity life cycle management routines like provisioning and de-provisioning of users.
• Remove stale user accounts and mitigate security risks.
• Reduce IT costs.
• Improve employee productivity.