Case Study: a large state agency reduces administrative demands by 80% with IBM Security identity management

A large state agency Reduces administrative demands by 80 percent with IBM ID Management system

A large state agency was facing a significant identity management challenge, needing to manage access for over 5,500 state employees and 5,000 partner organizations to hundreds of systems. This manual, decentralized process created security vulnerabilities and took weeks to provision new users. To address this, the agency turned to IBM Security for an IBM identity management system.

IBM Security implemented a solution using IBM Security Access Manager for Web, IBM Security Identity Manager, and IBM Security Access Manager for Enterprise Single Sign-On. This automated the provisioning and de-provisioning of user access, centralizing the request and approval process through a single portal. The results were transformative: IBM Security's system reduced administrative staff demands by 80 percent and slashed the time to provision new employees from weeks to just hours, while significantly improving application security.