Third-Party Access Governance

Secure Your Extended Workforce With Intelligent Identity Governance
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Managing Your Extended Workforce Doesn’t Have to be Complicated

Contractors, seasonal workers, freelancers, supply chain vendors, and other third-party workers make up a large percentage of today’s workforce. Managing these identities is a challenge for organizations of any size, and this complexity poses a large security risk. According to recent research, 98% of organizations do business with a third party that has been breached.

Complete Third Party Identity Management

Despite the widespread use of third-party contractors, vendors, and agencies, most organizations don’t actually understand the scope of their third-party relationships or the security risks they present.

Saviynt helps you simplify management of workforce identities, their access, and the policies that govern them.

Solve Third-Party Risks at the Identity Layer

Secure Your Data and Identities From Accidental Leaks or Malicious Threats
Assess Risk During Onboarding

Tailor invitation processes, creation policies, and end dates

Ensure Governance with Sponsors

Assign sponsors and initiate access reviews to prevent orphaned accounts

Provide Seamless Third-Party Access

Secure remote access to internal or cloud resources without a VPN

Gain Cross-Functional Controls

Enable controls cross-mapped across regulations, industry standards, platforms, and control types

Protect Your Data

Block external file-sharing and require authorization for third-party data release

Implement Least Privilege

Use just-in-time provisioning to provide no standing privileges access

Eliminate Identity-Based Risk from Business Relationships

Provision Third-Party Access with Confidence

Know who you’re dealing with. Collect third-party non-employee data collaboratively with internal and external sources throughout the relationship

  • Use a sponsorship model to ensure better communication with third-parties
  • Assess vendor risk prior to onboarding with risk-based creation policies
  • Enhance risk visibility with integrated SIEM and UEBA security monitoring data

Secure Third-Party Relationships at Scale

Quickly onboard, provision, monitor, audit, and remove time-bound access

  • Reduce time and operational costs with onboarding delegation
  • Automate low-risk access with intelligent out-of-the-box and custom controls and policies
  • Escalate high-risk requests for additional review with peer and access-based analytics

Ensure Compliance with Least Privilege

Assign only the access that third parties need to meet their contractual requirements

  • Grant only the necessary access with fine-grained entitlements
  • Accelerate audit prep and provide full documentation with compliance reports and dashboards
  • Comply with regulations like SOX, HIPAA, PCI DSS, GLBA, ISO 27002, FISMA, and CMMC

Complete Third-Party Lifecycle Management

You’re in charge from the first introduction to relationship completion

  • Use a sponsorship approach for consistent vendor onboarding
  • Reduce orphaned accounts with time-bound access
  • Secure infrastructure and sensitive data with advanced monitoring and access denial capabilities

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Customers Share Their Stories

The world’s largest organizations trust Saviynt to protect their privileged accounts from cybercriminals and data breaches.

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Saviynt delivered a comprehensive identity access and management solution for Wienerberger’s 17,000 employees, replacing overlapping systems with a single integrated approach.

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Origin Energy found Saviynt reduced birthright provisioning from ten days to 24 hours, automated provisioning to their core applications, automated attestation approvals, and reviews, and eliminated manual spreadsheet analysis.

Why Saviynt?

Saviynt is the industry leader in identity management solutions. We’ve gained recognition from reputable authorities like Deloitte, Forrester, and KuppingerCole.

As your cybersecurity partner, Saviynt can help you keep up with the exploding volume of third-party identities, which often pose greater risks than their human counterparts. Legacy IGA solutions were never designed to manage non-employees, and disjointed SaaS solutions complicate visibility. 61% of companies aren’t even sure how many third-party relationships they have.

Saviynt’s Enterprise Identity Cloud (EIC) delivers both IGA and Third Party Access Governance (TPAG) capabilities in one simple, centralized platform. A suite of features like self-service user onboarding, invitation-based user registration, and birthright provisioning automates joiner tasks, saving days and weeks of manpower.

With Saviynt, you can eliminate security silos with a single point of control. Secure any identity, any app, and any infrastructure, across your entire business.

Third-Party Access Governance: FAQs

Third-party governance involves the processes and controls an organization uses to manage its relationships with external parties such as vendors, suppliers, and service providers.

It’s critical to ensure that these outsiders don’t introduce any security issues and vulnerabilities. For instance, when a freelancer is onboarded into the system, they are not given access to sensitive data that is not needed in their day-to-day work.

To do this, third-party governance and risk management solutions must be in place.

Effective third-party management/governance requires carefully assessing relationships and implementing appropriate controls to mitigate risks. This may include conducting due diligence on potential third-party partners, negotiating contracts, clearly defining responsibilities and performance expectations, and monitoring third-party partners closely.

Third-party identity management (TPIM) is a vital part of governance. This involves managing the lifecycle of third-party accounts, including onboarding, provisioning, access management, and offboarding. It also uses authorization and authentication technologies, like multi-factor authentication (MFA), to lessen the risk of hackers compromising the system through third-party accounts.

The chief reason for third-party remote access governance is risk management.

Allowing outsiders into your network is a significant risk for companies, as it increases the chances of unauthorized access to sensitive data or compromised systems.

The problem is that third parties are beyond your control. They can easily share their credentials (willingly or accidentally) with hackers, who can then gain entry into your system.

Third-party access governance can’t stop this from happening. However, it can prevent the hacker from doing more damage by limiting where they can move inside the network. You can also terminate the account, rendering it useless to the attacker.

Ensuring proper governance will protect your company from potential breaches and help you stay ahead of the competition. If you want to ensure your company’s network is safe, third-party access governance should be in place.

Third-party access governance can increase security, reduce the chances of data breaches and other cyberattacks, and deliver significant cost savings.

By preventing data breaches, organizations can avoid the vast amounts of money involved in data recovery, legal fees, and reputation damage.

Third-party access governance also helps companies comply with data privacy regulations, such as General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).

Furthermore, third-party access governance sets clear expectations and mutual trust with your third-party partners, helping build stronger relationships.

Strengthening secure access is perhaps the key challenge with third-party access control. Companies have minimal control over how outsiders protect their login credentials—and no guarantee they can access your network from a secure workstation.

To shore up security, credentials must be regularly rotated and supported with other methods like MFA.

Monitoring third parties is critical but time-consuming work. Without it, you’re exposed to risks you may not be aware of; if you do detect something suspicious, you need a way to enforce immediate action.

Saviynt helps resolve these issues with robust risk assessment during onboarding, data protection, continuous monitoring, and seamless third-party access without a VPN.

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