Risk Management & SoD Analysis
Risk & SoD
for IAM Compliance
Operationalize enterprise identity and access management risk—segregation of duties workflows, clear visibility into access, and controls that help teams pass audits without spreadsheet chaos.
The EmpowerID Difference
Why Organizations Choose EmpowerID
What's different vs. the usual IGA vendors.
Policy-Based Engine
Add your own business risk policies to analyze and evaluate privilege levels—not one-size-fits-all.
Access Intelligibility
Functions map business actions to technical entitlements—bridging the business/technical divide.
One Platform
Risk management, SoD analysis, and access governance in one unified platform.
All Systems
300+ connectors for Cloud and on-premise systems—eliminate unsecure cross-system access.
How It Works
The Risk Management Engine
Three pillars working together 24/7 to maintain compliant access
Compliant Risk Management
What SHOULD BE • No-code
Add your own business risk policies to analyze and evaluate privilege levels.
Access Intelligibility
What IS • Functions
Map business actions to technical entitlements—bridging the business/technical divide.
Risk Management for All Systems
What YOU HAVE • 300+ Connectors
Connect all systems and eliminate unsecure cross-system access and resultant risk.
Compliant Risk Management
One goal of any organization is to efficiently deliver Compliant Access. In your organization's sense, Compliant Access means access that is both "position-appropriate" and that adheres to your risk-related "business policies".
Compliant Access not only keeps your organization on the right side of your legal obligations, but it also enhances your Zero Trust strategy.
By adding your own organization's risk policies into its calculations, EmpowerID can determine if the least privilege 'level' would produce an unacceptable risk to your organization.
Identifying such cases allows your risk control owners to make informed decisions about whether to accept the risk and apply mitigating controls, or to reject it.
Preventive & Detective SoD
EmpowerID's risk engine supports both preventive and detective SOD simulation and validation. It does so using user-friendly dashboards and workflow processes that automate remediation and revocation.
- • Workflow-based risk policies
- • SoD simulation & validation
- • Automated remediation & revocation
- • User-friendly dashboards
Functions Bridge the Divide
Your organization's greatest challenge around identifying and managing enterprise risk is in understanding the actual business access that a users' technical entitlements provide.
Unfortunately, there is a clear mismatch between the technical "system" world and the business "process" world.
The Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) system must bridge this divide by providing a common language or "Intelligibility Layer" that connects both. EmpowerID does this with functions.
Access Intelligibility
In EmpowerID, functions map the physical actions that your business users perform (their job tasks), to the resultant action on the technical side.
Naturally, users can only carry out activities or actions that the business has permitted them to do, i.e. via their roles and entitlements.
Example functions that represent a risk are "Create Purchase Order" and "Approve Purchase Order". (It would create a toxic combination for one single person to have authority for both these functions, hence the risk.)
Functions define the system-specific permissions (or roles) that grant someone the ability to perform these type of business actions.
Risk Management for All Your Systems
For enterprises, the prevalence of Cloud and on-premise systems using apps with dissimilar permission and inheritance models poses significant problems.
The lack of direct connectivity and control here forces organizations to permit cross-system access just to keep their business functioning.
This limitation—plus the lack of visibility, logging, tracking, and other capabilities that will make you non-compliant—poses both a severe security risk and a major challenge.
EmpowerID meets both risk and challenge by providing one of the largest libraries of out-of-the-box connectors for on-premise and Cloud systems available.
EmpowerID first connects these disparate systems. Following which, the EmpowerID inventory engine then 'pulls' in and maps these complex system and app specific permissions. Finally, a permanent workflow then monitors for changes. When detected, and as per your configured business policies, these can trigger additional events and security alerts.
Large Connector Library
EmpowerID ships with a large library of function definitions for common systems. Process owners and application owners may also use the function mapping tools in EmpowerID to define which application permissions or roles equate to which functions.
Risk policies use functions as building blocks for their calculations. These calculations determine who has access to, and can perform the function, and who is in violation of the risk policy, and cannot.
- • 300+ out-of-box connectors
- • Function mapping tools
- • Risk policy calculations
- • Automated remediation workflows
Proven at Enterprise Scale
Customer success metrics from Fortune 500 risk management deployments
Analyst Recognition
Industry recognition for risk management excellence
KuppingerCole Leadership
Identity & Access Intelligence
Strong risk management and SoD capabilities
Strategic Endorsement
Executive View Report
Governance-first approach to risk management
