How to Complete Your Zero Trust Mission With a Single Pane of Glass

Since it was first coined by Forrester more than a decade ago, the Zero Trust model has proven its strength in identity and access management (IAM), relying on strict controls and not trusting anything by default. The events of 2020 have made Zero Trust (ZT) a priority once again as remote working requirements expanded every organization’s networks well beyond the office walls.

The flexibility of the cloud made the swift shift to remote work possible, but it also introduced more than a few challenges for IAM and ZT. The challenges are compounded by the hybrid situations most companies find themselves in: still unable to move everything to the cloud while simultaneously in search of solutions that can better integrate with their on-premise and legacy systems. Unfortunately, this has often resulted in a disconnected patchwork of not quite connected quick fixes.

Piecemeal solutions are not sustainable. Businesses need one source of truth — one pane of glass — that brings all of these otherwise disparate technologies together in one platform. This saves organizations time and resources, keeps costs down, and seriously simplifies processes for IT teams.

The Bravura Security Fabric gets organizations over these hurdles by bringing all of these critical needs into one solution and framework including Pass, Identity, Group, Privilege, and Discover. By shifting to a single pane of glass for IAM, organizations are able to better see the big picture and conquer even the most persistent challenges to achieve ZT success.

IAM Best Practices for Zero Trust Success

Bridge the Gaps

For many businesses, moving to the cloud is not a simple migration. It’s likely done in stages. Some businesses may even have highly regulated data that can’t be stored in the cloud at all and need to find hybrid solutions. On-premise and legacy problems don’t just go away when cloud services are introduced. Having a solution that can seamlessly integrate the cloud with existing architectures is a critical success factor.

The Bravura Security Fabric and its extensive set of connectors significantly simplifies the integration of disparate systems. These connector capabilities are also core to the offerings within Bravura Security Fabric, allowing organizations to easily turn on or off services (Pass, Identity, Group, Privilege, and Discover) as their business needs change.

Get a Handle on Groups

Across most industries, groups reign supreme as the primary access granting system for organizations. Keeping group access organized is a crucial aspect of maintaining a ZT model. All too often this is where wires get crossed — either by human error or a lack of access to controls beyond the IT team. Granting incorrect permissions via groups can spell disaster.

Organizations can avoid catastrophe with a few simple best practices: allow users group management access, automate where possible, create business-friendly names for groups, etc. Bravura Group can help your IT team easily oversee all of these group activities to maintain visibility and control over these critical access points. By balancing user access with IT oversight, organizations can maintain IAM and ZT success.

Increase Resiliency With Adaptive Authentication

As our recent survey uncovered, remote access remains a top IAM challenge and priority for many organizations. User authentication and password management is a critical component of remote access strategies and the ZT model. With remote access, IT teams face challenges caused by overly simple, misplaced, and generally compromised passwords and credentials. Remote working environments have only increased the risk surrounding these vulnerabilities, especially with insufficient support access.

Bravura Pass helps businesses tackle these risks by providing resources to help users better manage their own credentials, including:

• Strong authentication (MFA) and federated access (Security Assertions Markup Language (SAML) 2.0 identity provider (IdP) )
• Self-service password and PIN reset
• Self-service unlock of encrypted drives
• Password synchronization
• Managed enrollment of security questions, mobile phone numbers, personal e-mail addresses and biometrics

The Future of Zero Trust in the Cloud

Cloud environments present a fresh host of IAM and ZT challenges and the fact is siloed technologies cannot address these issues. By bringing together the tools to manage all of these business-critical pieces in one place, companies have a comprehensive collection of tools and resources that streamlines IAM in a single, secure, scalable solution.

We covered all of this and more in our recent webinar with Bravura Security partner IntiGrow. As a leading global enterprise information security company and one of our channel partners, IntiGrow delivers comprehensive security solutions empowering enterprises to proactively detect and prevent security threats to their computing infrastructure, data, and applications.

Learn more about IntiGrow and the rest of our channel partners here and see the full webinar now available on demand by following this link: Complete Your Zero Trust Mission Using a Single Pane of Glass