Accelerating a Pathway
There is a new trend touting the transformational qualities of AI’s ability to deliver actionable data and predictive analysis that in many instances, seems to be a bit of an overpromise. The reality is that very few solutions in the cyber-physical security (CPS) space live up to this high expectation with the one exception being the new generation of Physical Identity and Access Management (PIAM) software – herein recategorized as PIAM+.
Next generation PIAM+ software provides a new security ecosphere – beyond just accurate and seamless identity management for physical access – that aggregates data from an expanded suite of applications to deliver true predictive analysis. PIAM+ combines physical identity and access management (traditional PIAM) with visitor identity management (VIM), incident/ticketing management, and asset lifecycle management.
This powerful multi-tiered solution redefines and elevates siloed identity and access management for enterprise level applications by providing integrated applications for enterprise-wide event analysis. Here’s how it works.
Physical identity lifecycle management. Today’s facilities accommodate people, data, critical assets and intellectual property. Security is no longer just about managing entry/egress operations, it is about knowing exactly who is gaining access and why they are there. Physical identity lifecycle access management fulfills this need using AI-driven authentication and real time security tracking to ensure access is dynamic, adaptive and accountable.
Access permissions to enter facilities and secured areas within facilities are automatically managed based on individual user profiles, compliance permissions, schedules, and security levels. This eliminates manual intervention, greatly reducing the risk of unauthorized access while documenting all activities for analysis.
Aside from ensuring optimal identity accuracy and security, PIAM captures all the data points related to an individual’s access activity to detect anomalous behavior for further investigation and data correlation, which PIAM+ now performs autonomously.
Visitor identity management. Next generation PIAM+ embodies comprehensive visitor management operations, eliminating the common delays and inconvenience of legacy visitor management software, adding additional data points for predictive analysis. New PIAM+ driven visitor management allows visitors to seamlessly check in, have their identities verified, and access the specific areas they have been granted permissions to enter —all while safeguarding sensitive company data and facilities.
This is most useful in venues that use contracted workers and have high visitor traffic such as airports, higher education campuses, government sites and hospitals. All spaces that need to facilitate secure movement. Next generation PIAM+ VIM optimizes workflows, improves efficiency and reduces security risks while contributing new data points for analysis and threat detection.
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