Network Provisioning

The Provisioning process monitors access rights and privileges to ensure the security of an enterprise's resources and user privacy. As a secondary responsibility, it ensures compliance and minimizes the vulnerability of systems to penetration and abuse. As a tertiary responsibliity, it tries to reduce the amount of custom configuration using boot image control and other methods that radically reduce the number of different configurations involved.

An Integrated Architecture for Identity and Access Management - August 21, 2008

The most efficient path to containing the cost of IAM tools, meeting your compliance requirements and ensuring appropriate levels of security is with a solution that integrates industry-leading capabilities across the different IT architectures that are deployed in your IT environment.
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