Identity-driven security

Embrace a new security strategy centered on identity to give you the most intelligent approach.

Put identity at the center of your security strategy

Introduction.

Security requirements change as organizations embrace mobility and the cloud. Instead of layering multiple stand-alone protection solutions, you may want to consider a more comprehensive and innovative approach and build your security strategy around identity.

Securing the integrity of your identities lays a foundation for greater IT visibility, management, and protection across your users, devices, apps, and data. You can detect threats earlier and respond faster with identity-driven security.

Protect your organization with the most sophisticated and adaptable security strategy. Start with one secure, common identity.

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Table of contents

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IT prosSection 02.

Employees

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IT prosSection 01.

Take a more informed, agile, and comprehensive security posture with an identity-driven security strategy. By giving each of your users a single, common identity for everything they do, you can enable more sophisticated and adaptable security.

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More control over shadow IT

Flexible oversight of any device

Robust data security and compliance

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Preemptive threat detection

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IT pros

Security that travels with user identities

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Security that travels with user identitiesA single, common identity will help you improve the protection and management of user credentials and permissions. With identity-driven security, you can effectively layer security capabilities, like multi-factor authentication and risk analysis for each sign-on.

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Flexible oversight of any deviceIdentity-based device management even extends security and access policies to personal devices, data, and apps—you can also apply policies at the app and data level when devices are not enrolled.

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Robust data security and complianceProtect your data anywhere—even when shared outside your organization. Define access permissions based on identity or data sensitivity for increased control over how users interact with files, including restrictions on editing and saving. You can also rescind access at any time.

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More control over shadow ITAdding a cloud access security broker to your identity-driven security strategy can give you greater visibility and control over SaaS app usage, including discovery of unapproved or unsecured third-party apps. Set controls to reduce and prevent risky behavior in the cloud and control access in real time based on conditions and session context.

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Preemptive threat detectionProtect your organization from advanced and targeted attacks with intelligent analytics that analyze, learn, and identify normal versus abnormal user behavior. Identity-driven security can maximize investments in behavior analytics, machine learning, and graph intelligence for an advantage over even the most sophisticated attacks.

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With identity-driven security, your users can get work done on any device, on any platform, and without any disruptions. With a single, common identity for everything they do, you can deliver a consistent, reliable, and productive user experience.

Section 02. Employees

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Anytime app access with less risk

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Threat protection in the background

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Employees

More device choice

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Secure collaboration beyond company walls

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Anywhere productivity, all the time

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Anywhere productivity, all the timeWith one secure identity, make it easy for your users to automatically connect to all the apps and data they use with single sign-on for thousands of SaaS applications. Even better, you can also enable self-service tasks like password changes that save IT time.

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More device choiceYour users can easily work from personal devices—no enrollment required—using managed apps or apps protected with corporate policies so they can still enjoy secure access and data protection from any device.

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Secure collaboration beyond company wallsYour users can collaborate with partners, vendors, clients, and anyone else outside your organization without having to take extra steps to ensure data remains confidential and protected.

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Anytime app access with less riskProtect users from risky interactions with any cloud application in real time. Assess each interaction so that users can work freely, only encountering disruption when risk or vulnerability is detected. Users can enjoy flexible access to tools with comprehensive protection when it’s needed.

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Threat protection in the backgroundSophisticated behavioral analytics provide protection behind the scenes while maintaining the integrity of user identities. Without disruption, users can better inform their own security protocol to build stronger protection for their identity, devices, apps, and data—wherever they may be working.

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Putting secure identity at the center of your business can help protect your organization as it moves toward digital transformation. Ensuring that all your users have a single, secure identity enables quick, seamless access to all the resources and services they need.

More importantly, IT always retains the ability to monitor, analyze, and manage what those users do. Identity-driven security is a sophisticated approach that helps your business safeguard against the evolving threat landscape.

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