Effortless Identity Access Certifications for Stronger Security

We're thrilled to announce the launch of our next generation of Saviynt Identity Certifications. Saviynt Identity Access Certifications is a powerful and innovative solution designed to help managers and resource owners execute certifications faster and ensure that identities have just enough access to maintain the principle of least privilege. In this blog post, product manager Umesh Lella will share the details about how we’ve innovated identity certifications and why we believe it can make a difference for our customers.  

– Vibhuti Sinha, Chief Product Officer, Research & Development 

Less Guess, More informed: Smarter Decisions with Simplified and Intelligent Certifications 

Identity access certifiers often struggle with easily getting the right information they need to make intelligent certification decisions, leading to fatigue, making rash decisions, or rubber stamping all access just to get something off their plate. Saviynt Identity Certifications removes the barriers that lead to excessive identity access by allowing certifiers to focus on the most important certification needs with a personalized view tailored to a specific user’s view of the world. 

Specifically, Saviynt Identity Certifications provides the following benefits to help reduce identity risk commonly spread through convoluted certification processes: 

Simplified, Intuitive User Interface​  

Unclear data representation and hidden or confusing features often lead users to think, “I am not sure what to do next" or "I can’t find the information I need to make the decision". Saviynt reduces unnecessary steps and provides a visual hierarchy of identities and their access improving task completion speed and guides the users naturally through the process. 

Saviynt’s user interface helps certifiers quickly find necessary information to speed certification processes. 

Say Goodbye to Rubber Stamping with Intelligent Recommendations 

Traditional certification processes often rely on manual processes and can be time consuming and error prone. Certifiers also suffer from certification fatigue, leading to ongoing challenges with rubber stamping access. In a traditional review process, a user might not understand what access to revoke due to a lack of insights. With Saviynt, certifiers are given a trust score based on numerous environmental risk signals as well as recommendations as to why, or why not, a decision should be made. This level of detail allows decision-makers to make more accurate and confident decisions. 

Saviynt provides certifiers recommendations for approvals and why those recommendations have been provided. 

Personalization 

Traditional certification processes often apply a “one size fits all” view, leading to manual errors and frustration due to the difficulties in finding relevant information. Saviynt delivers the industry’s first personalization feature, giving users the ability to customize data exploration, using advanced filtering options tailored to their experience. This allows them to quickly analyze relevant information and improve decision-making efficiency. 

Users can customize their views to help them quickly review certifications for faster decision making. 

Certification from Anywhere  

In today’s mobile first world, ensuring applications are responsive and optimized to different devices and screens is more important than ever. Provide an experience that allows users to certify on the go, using any device, even from your phone while sailing the ocean! 

Complete certifications from anywhere with the new user experience, even while sailing. 

Reduce Help Desk Requests and Training Costs 

Administrators often spend time preparing detailed, step-by-step instructions to help end users navigate and complete certifications. Yet, even with this effort, they spend a lot of time responding to basic “how to” questions. To reduce the time taken responding to help desk requests, Saviynt provides guided tours that train and walk certifiers through the process with minimal to no documentation, providing clarification and saving time for both users and support teams. 

Guided tours help eliminate “how to” and help desk requests. 

Accelerated Decision-Making and Simplify Audits and Reporting 

Manually writing audit comments repeatedly can lead to fatigue, increasing the likelihood of errors or missed observations. Saviynt certifications offers predefined comments to ensure consistency, improve audit tracking, and help enforce security best practices in access reviews. Predefined comments provide justifications with a single click, expediting the overall certification process. 

Sample Predefined Comments 

• "User access has been revoked as it is no longer required for their role." 

• "Access to this system has been removed due to lack of recent usage." 

• "User no longer associated with this department—access revoked to maintain least privilege." 

Saviynt Identity Certifications is designed with user-friendliness and identity certifiers in mind. Our early access program participants have already provided positive feedback regarding our recent updates, including: 

• “We had our fastest takeoff for participation of any certification due to the ease of use and completing certifications is much improved.” 

• “Mobile experience is amazing - super happy with certifications, and positive feedback internally.” 

• “Business teams were able to execute certifications with ease”  

Results regarding early adoption of Intelligent Certifications have shown a 60% improvement in review completion times, a 20% reduction in the number of steps to complete a campaign, and an increase in revocation rates by 35%. 

In short, Saviynt has continued to innovate the certification process to enable certifiers to make more informed, strategic decisions when granting or revoking user access. This, in turn, helps strengthen identity security programs and minimize potential risks to critical information and resources. 

Current users can learn more about the new Certification experience via Saviynt University and via our documentation portal.