Entitlements Management Strategy

1. Entitlement Management Strategy
A DATA STRATEGY White Paper By the AXIS DATA STRATEGY Team
…a phased, iterative approach that prioritizes business needs
www.axistechnologyllc.com Boston | Dallas | Charlotte | New York
Streamline your entitlement provisioning and review processes to ensure
your business runs faster, smarter, safer, and more efficiently.
Entitlements allow a user either direct access to data in a database, or indirect access through an
application. Either way, they are often described in low-level technical terms instead of in business
language, and not inventoried. As a result:
 New employees’ rights are typically modeled after existing ones because the person
granting access does not know the minimum nor the limits of what is needed for a
particular job. This leads to audit issues concerning over-entitlement and a lack of
standard processes for assigning and managing access.
 Managers must regularly review entitlements at a micro-level, which can take days.
Many typically sign-off without completely understanding what they’ve reviewed.
Challenge
Solution
Name and assign sets of entitlements based on employees’ roles. In addition, enable Managers to
request and review these sets of entitlements through a business-friendly, online system.
Axis works with members of your information security administration and business communities to:
 Create a customized Process Guide, or “cookbook”, based on Entitlements analysis,
which details the steps and tasks required for creating and maintaining sets of
entitlements.
 Utilize the Process Guide to plan and lead the implementation of sets of entitlements
across the enterprise, typically addressing the most audit-sensitive business areas first.
 Design a product integration roadmap for enterprise-wide role-based access control.
 Architect and build online review and provisioning systems to manage access rights.
The Axis Entitlements Management Solution consists of:
Process
 Our approach is repeatable, teachable and scalable.
Expertise
 Our pioneering teams consist of seasoned business analysts and experts in both
mainframe and distributed systems.

2. Entitlement Management Strategy
A DATA STRATEGY White Paper By the AXIS DATA STRATEGY Team
…a phased, iterative approach that prioritizes business needs
www.axistechnologyllc.com Boston | Dallas | Charlotte | New York
Streamline your entitlement provisioning and review processes to ensure
your business runs faster, smarter, safer, and more efficiently.
 In Current state User Group had 7 profiles with intermixed access to 9 applications and 681
entitlements.
 Post remediation, only 48 entitlements remain which are directly aligned to user role and associated
application functions.
Benefits
Having managed and defined sets of entitlements enables you to:
 Grant access for users that is appropriate to their roles.
 Achieve better compliance – know and report to auditors, employee access granted.
 Ease and streamline the entitlement management process.
 Apply a consistent methodology for user access to systems across the organization.
Our Entitlement Management strategy provides clean up and realignment of the existing
entitlements configurations.
Axis Technology, LLC is known for producing clear presentations tailored to different audiences.
True knowledge transfer accompanies every deliverable – from our business community outreach
materials to our customized process guides (“cookbooks”).