Enterprise Z joined hands with Kyushu Yunteng to effectively deal with the operational inefficiencies and security risks caused by business expansion by deploying a unified identity authentication platform, and successfully achieved an overall improvement in security protection and operational efficiency.
Background of the case
Founded in 1972, Company Z is now a wholly-owned subsidiary of a leading international industrial engineering technology and service group. He specializes in four core businesses: industrial engineering, municipal investment and operation, energy conservation and environmental protection, and high-tech. The company deeply integrates the group's resources, shares market channels, customer relationships and technological advantages, and flexibly allocates human resources to strengthen internal communication and skill transfer.
Company Z keeps up with the trend of informatization, realizes the integrated operation of design and production through informatization, and builds a comprehensive and comprehensive business structure, covering product design, production management, collaborative services and intelligent decision support, which greatly improves the efficiency of business circulation.
However, with the expansion of the scale of the business system and the growth of the workforce, the problems of collaboration between the business systems, as well as between the subsidiary and the parent company, as well as safety risks, gradually surfaced.
The parallelism of multiple systems leads to redundancy of accounts, and frequent switching affects work efficiency
Each business system is independent of each other, but it is impossible to achieve complete interconnection when integrating applications, one account of communication tools, one account of SCM system, another account of CRM system, employees frequently switch between different systems to log in, and the operation process is cumbersome and complex, which undoubtedly has a certain degree of impact on the overall work efficiency.
The cross-system business flow is not smooth, which reduces the efficiency and coherence of business process execution
Cross-system business processes are difficult to flow, such as project approval, financial reimbursement, order processing, etc., which may be delayed due to the inability to seamlessly switch identities, affecting the coherence and execution speed of the overall business process.
Privilege management challenges exacerbate security risks and increase the burden of O&M
Maintaining the authentication system of each system separately increases the operation and maintenance workload of the IT department, including account management, permission adjustment, password reset and other problems, which will occupy more resources. With the increase of systems and the difficulty of permission management, the potential security risks also increase, which is undoubtedly a major issue to be solved urgently for enterprises pursuing stable and secure operations.
As the business of Company Z will continue to grow, how to break down the barriers between systems and realize the real sense of data flow and collaborative office while continuing to expand business coverage and deepen informatization construction? And how to strengthen safety management to ensure that enterprises are stable and far-reaching in the process of rapid development?
Solution
Company Z actively sought solutions, and finally chose Kyushu Yunteng unified identity authentication platform to successfully solve the problem of enterprise identity management.
Kyushu Yunteng customized a unified identity authentication platform for it, successfully broke the barriers of multiple accounts, realized seamless integration between business systems, significantly optimized the login experience of employees, and simplified the operation process. The solution ensures that each employee has easy and efficient access to all authorization systems with a single unified and secure digital identity credential, thus ensuring smooth and efficient business collaboration between Company Z and its parent company.
Multi-account integration: Realize the full lifecycle management of global data sources and optimize the access process
Based on the organizational structure and user information in the existing business system, Kyushu Yunteng builds a global data source management based on the unified identity authentication platform through batch import or synchronization. Integrate the user account information in SCM, CRM, PLM, ERP and other independent applications into a centralized and unified account management system, and comprehensively manage the entire life cycle of the account from creation, authorization, use, modification to cancellation, so as to ensure the security and controllability of each link. On the one hand, it simplifies the access process of employees to many business application systems, without having to memorize multiple accounts and passwords. Only one set of accounts and passwords is needed to access the company's self-built and the company's unified business systems. On the other hand, IT administrators only need to maintain the unified identity authentication platform account separately, and the problem of employees resetting passwords is also greatly reduced, and they can self-retrieve passwords, greatly improving work efficiency and user experience.
Unified Logon Portal: Seamless single sign-on and integrated management of business systems
Based on the unified identity authentication platform, build a centralized unified login portal, connect with various application systems, and connect its user authentication process to the unified identity authentication platform, the employees of Company Z can seamlessly and securely access all authorized business application systems, including but not limited to internal management platform, collaborative design tools, production management systems and other related business modules, through a single authentication entrance, which greatly improves the work efficiency of employees. Make business collaboration smoother.
With the continuous development and expansion of the company's business, when there are new application systems to be accessed in the future, the unified identity authentication platform presets and provides a set of standardized authentication interfaces and technical specifications suitable for various application systems, so as to realize the seamless single sign-on function between various business systems, and provide convenience for future business expansion and new application access.
Fine-grained permission control: Achieve agility, consistency, and rigor of resource access control
Kyushu Yunteng adopts a sound access control (permission management) strategy to ensure that each user can only access resources that strictly match their duties and responsibilities; At the same time, the application of the group- or role-based authorization model can flexibly and quickly assign permission sets to team members with similar functions and work attributes, greatly improving the agility and consistency of permission management. In addition, it also combines the authorization logic based on the organizational structure, accurately follows the hierarchical relationship of the organizational structure within the enterprise, and carries out step-by-step delegation and detailed authority setting to ensure the rigor and compliance of the authority management system.
Deploy an application security gateway: Build a layer of resource security protection
By implementing multi-dimensional and intelligent access control policies, Application Security Gateway can perform real-time, accurate, and dynamic verification of all requests that attempt to access application resources and services based on factors such as user identity (such as user name, account, and device identifier), role permissions (such as administrators, common users, and read-only users), access time (such as access permission within a specified time period), and access location (such as IP address range and geographical location restrictions).
In this process, the security gateway acts as a gatekeeper, carefully checking whether each access request meets the preset security policy, and makes a decision to allow or deny accordingly. Only when the user's access request fully matches the authorization policy can the corresponding resource content be successfully accessed, so as to effectively prevent security risks such as illegal incursion, data leakage, and malicious operations, and ensure the security and stability of the enterprise information system.
After working with Kyushu Yunteng to deploy a unified identity authentication platform, Enterprise Z has achieved a double leap in security protection efficiency and operational efficiency.
In terms of security protection efficiency, through the use of advanced technologies such as security gateways and fine-grained permission management, the risk of illegal access and data leakage is effectively prevented, and the protection of sensitive information and digital assets is enhanced. In terms of operational efficiency, with the single sign-on (SSO) function, employees can easily access all authorized applications, avoiding the cumbersome and repeated login process, and greatly improving work efficiency. In addition, centralized identity management makes IT operation and maintenance more efficient and orderly, simplifies the account management process when personnel join and leave, and promotes the improvement of collaborative office efficiency across systems, thereby helping enterprises as a whole to ensure information security while effectively promoting the smooth operation of business processes and the growth of organizational productivity.
The successful implementation of this project cooperation not only effectively guarantees the security of enterprise Z's business data, but also promotes its digital transformation process from a deep level, enabling the enterprise to achieve a more stable and secure development trend on the basis of efficient operation.