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Value partners have a depth of experience and knowledge about secondary authentication
security solutions such as biometrics and the best ways of access management in onboarding
and offboarding scenarios.

Resellers listen to their customers, so that they can quickly understand which solutions are the
most appropriate for their unique needs. They are ideally positioned to support businesses and
offer sound advice.

There is a plethora of solutions out there that alleviate the angst of manual onboarding and
offboarding. These solutions all onboard devices and can disable accounts instantly when
needed from all the different identity locations. Additionally, with the advent of compliance
standards, it is necessary for businesses in many industries to audit and evaluate their user
access processes regularly to meet regulations.

Companies don’t have the best interests of their own organization in mind in not doing away
with manual procedures that are more open to error.

Automated processes that disable accounts instantly will not only alleviate the security risks of
former employees still able to access company information, they also alleviate the possibility of
organizations inadvertently falling short of compliance regulations.

Identity management is a rapidly growing field in the age of security and data breaches—with
secondary authentication becoming a necessity and secondary technologies like biometrics
becoming more cost feasible and common.

With the identity management category soaring in relevance, so too must the identity and
access management market with organizations needing to adopt efficient automated processes
to relieve the stress of slow, manual and complex access management that can still leave
organizations with secondary authentication open to security risks when users are not
offboarded instantly.

About the Author

Doug Ramos is Security Practice Manager at Groupware Technology,
where he is growing and expanding the company’s security business by
evaluating and adding the latest security solutions that will offer the best
protection for Groupware Technology customers. He has over 20 years of
experience in the technology industry in security and networks.
Doug started his career at Lucent and became one of its first VoIP
specialists, building out voice networks in eight different countries. He has
also worked at Cisco in its wireless and security divisions and as Manager of Cisco Enterprise
Networking for CANCOM-HPM Networks. Prior to joining Groupware Technology, he was
Director of Wireless Product Marketing at Fortinet.

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