Access Rights Management process 

Access Rights Management (ARM) is the process of controlling and managing access to resources and information within an organization. ARM helps to ensure that sensitive information is protected and that only authorized users have access to it. 

Typical challenges which European organizations experience in relation to ARM include:

• Limited tools available at the organization: access rights requests might be still done using email, MS Word and MS Excel templates, with no single point where all records are maintained.
• Difficulty to enforce and manage approval chains with flexibility. 
• Difficulty to audit changes or updates to information related to approvals, entitlements or ownership's.

All these challenges lead to inefficiencies and security risks.

Efecte IGA includes the following ARM capabilities and use cases: 

• Requests, removals and approvals of access rights by organization end-users, managers, application owners, etc.
• Automated provisioning and de-provisioning towards Azure AD or AD
• Reporting for auditing purposes
• Administrator management of entitlements and applications
• Management of business roles
• Management of administration tasks
• Management of request catalog
• Management of passwords (by end user, manager and admin)
• Management of IGA users
  
   

Other use cases such as management of privileged access or management of physical accesses are included in the process Expanded ARM in this documentation, as shown in the figure below.