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When it comes to identity management, what's your role?

Deloitte and Sun Microsystems provide an integrated, role-based approach to services and solutions to help clients in their identity and access management (IAM) efforts.

Having overcome the initial hurdles of compliance, many organizations now face increasingly higher costs associated with sustaining compliance. Companies need a way to streamline key processes associated with identity and access management to sustain compliance while mitigating risk. And they want to do it in a manner that aligns their business objectives with the identity and access management (IAM) infrastructure.

Adding new employees or moving existing employees to new projects or positions compounds challenges associated with providing these individuals with immediate access to the right information and the systems to do their jobs.

Aligning business and technology for IAM

Deloitte and Sun have teamed to provide a series of offerings designed to help clients in their efforts to leverage their current technology investment and realize the business value of IAM.

The first of these is the Enterprise Role Lifecycle Management (ERLM) offering, a combination of services and technology that can assist clients in their efforts to develop a technical architecture aligned with their company's business issues.

The ERLM offering provides an integrated approach designed to help our clients in their efforts regarding compliance management, compliance reporting and streamlining user provisioning through the use of "enterprise roles". The ERLM offering integrates:

• Deloitte Role Management for Enterprises deployment methodology, used in multiple engagements to assist enterprises in their efforts to establish an infrastructure to manage user access via enterprise roles


• Sun Java System Identity Manager software, the first integrated user provisioning and identity auditing solution designed to help reduce the cost of managing identities both inside and outside the business while enabling sustainable and repeatable compliance


• Sun Role Manager, integrated with the Sun Java System Identity Manager, a solution that provides market-leading capabilities for engineering and managing roles (role lifecycle management) in today's complex access environments as well as automating critical identity-baed controls (identity compliance).

The importance of enterprise roles

To ease the burden associated with managing each person's access, the ERLM offering assists organizations in their efforts to create enterprise roles based on usage and policies as they pertain to functional user groups. These business-aligned roles can simplify management of access rules and rights for groups of users and help management answer the important questions:

• Who is accessing what data and which applications?
• What are the users doing with their access privileges?
• How can we automatically and securely track access?

Using enterprise roles, organizations can gain visibility into the access privileges allocated to users, increasing control and insight into who has access to what resources and information. Through this enhanced visibility, organizations can manage access more securely and easily.

Realize the business value of IAM

Learn how the ERLM offering can assist global enterprises in their efforts to simplify compliance reporting and streamline user administration process. Contact us today and take the first steps towards integrating a broad approach to IAM that aligns business and technology.

As used in this document, "Deloitte" means Deloitte Consulting LLP and Deloitte & Touche LLP, which are separate subsidiaries of Deloitte LLP. Please see www.deloitte.com/us/about for a detailed description of the legal structure of Deloitte LLP and its subsidiaries.