Partner Content In a world where one wrong click can set off a catastrophic breach, organizations must control what their users have access to if they want to stop mission-critical assets from being leaked or stolen. Identity governance and administration (IGA) is as essential to the survival of your business as malware protection and secure backups.

For small to mid-sized organizations, however, the high barrier to entry of most identity governance solutions makes them a non-starter. IT teams are overworked, security budgets are tight, and the lengthy setup phase required by your typical IGA tool puts far too much strain on both.

Only it doesn’t have to be this way. Modern IGA platforms like tenfold sidestep sluggish setups by providing out-of-the-box support for key IT systems, making integration quick and painless. This offers organizations of all sizes a fast and easy way to streamline governance processes from on/offboarding to access reviews and self-service requests.

As for the cost, tenfold is now offering a free, full-featured version of its IGA solution for organizations with under 150 users. This Community Edition is designed to make identity governance and administration accessible to even the smallest businesses and IT teams, supplying them with the tools they need to lock down access and protect their data.

To help you make the most of this free IGA solution, here are five ways the tenfold Community Edition will help you streamline IGA in your IT environment.

#1: Automate onboarding

 and offboarding using role-based access

By attaching access rights to roles instead of assigning each permission individually, IGA makes provisioning both faster and more accurate. First, you establish which privileges are needed for different departments, locations, or job functions. Adding users to these roles gives them all the access they need in one go. More importantly, access is revoked as soon as a user is removed from a role.

Once you have set up the permission roles you need (known as “profiles” in tenfold), you can now create rules that automatically add users to the right roles based on attributes like group memberships or data pulled from your HR system. These rules allow you to automate the entire user lifecycle, ensuring that access is updated as soon as their HR entry changes. You can even create custom lifecycle phases to model extended absences such as parental leave or sabbaticals.

#2: Offer self-service access requests and

 password resets to users

As the most frequent ticket submitted to help desks worldwide, password resets cost IT teams countless hours each year. By empowering end users to reset their own passwords, tenfold’s self-service portal allows you to free up your help desk and eliminate these tickets for good.

Alongside password resets, customizable approval workflows allow you to delegate access decisions from the IT team to stakeholders within your different departments. Users can request access they need through the self-service portal and the data owner you have assigned to the resource in question will be asked to approve or reject their request. This speeds up approvals while ensuring a clean paper trail for every request and change.

#3: Monitor and review access to shared content in Microsoft 365

Shared content in cloud platforms is one of the biggest security blind spots organizations face today. Seamless sharing has become an essential part of our digital life, but how do you protect sensitive data when there is no way to tell what your users are sharing and with whom?

tenfold provides a centralized breakdown of all permissions and sharing links across Teams, OneDrive, and SharePoint, giving you the full picture of who has access to your cloud data. What’s more, you can include shared content in access reviews, tasking users, channel owners, or team leads with reviewing who they have shared files with and confirming whether access is still needed.

#4: Get a handle on file server permissions and unstructured data

When it comes to governing access, the devil is in the details. Even if you have the big picture of group memberships and app licenses, you still need to know which files and folders your users have access to. Unfortunately, the lack of good reporting options in Active Directory makes this a lot harder than it should be.

tenfold breaks down nested groups and inherited permissions to show you exactly who has access across your file server. It also maintains a best practice accounts, global groups, domain local groups, and permissions (AGDLP) group structure for you, taking the pain out of file server administration. Pass your next audit with flying colors with the ability to pull up reports for specific users or objects instantly.

#5: Keep an audit-ready event log and track critical changes

Speaking of auditing, the Community Edition also comes with an auditing platform that gives you complete visibility into system events and records them in a dedicated event log. Never miss a critical change again: Filter through the noise and react to important changes as they happen.

Data from related events is consolidated automatically, showing you both who is behind a change as well as everything that happened. With log retention limited only by available storage, you can keep a clean, audit-ready trail of everything that happens in your IT.

Request the community edition

 today

From lifecycle management to access reviews, tenfold’s Community Edition gives you powerful IGA at your fingertips. Here are some helpful resources to get you started.

• First, visit our website to request your Community Edition license key.
• Next, watch our video tutorials that walk you through the setup process.
• If you run into any questions, our community subreddit is the perfect place to get help from fellow users as well as tenfold professionals.

Do you want to streamline your identity governance and cut your IT workload in half? Then request the tenfold Community Edition today!

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