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             The ideal identity and privilege management platform for your company is Oracle Identity Governance (OIG).  OIG is comprised of three subcomponents: Oracle Identity Manager (OIM), Oracle Identity Analytics (OIA) and Oracle Privileged Account Manager (OPAM).  Access privileges are created and managed within the OIM application.  User roles are created and managed within the OIA application.  OIA also facilitates separation of duty assignments and certification updates confirming the ongoing need for all users with privileged access roles.  “Oracle Identity Analytics provides comprehensive dashboards and reporting capabilities based on user identity, access and audit data offering quick review of compliance and operational status in context of roles, segregation of duty polies, and other controls,” (Oracle, 2008).  OPAM oversees the management of privileged user accounts and essential network assets such as servers or databases.  The OIG protection platform can be deployed on a server with a Windows, Linux or Unix based operating system.  Developmental opportunities for this product is the overall pricing may appear high compared to many of its competitors and its limited focus on innovation to remain in the forefront with the top industry competitors for this product, (Gaehtgens, F., Iverson, B. & Perkins, E., 2013).  Oracle remains an industry leader for identity and privilege management software and continues to provide intuitive defense against the dangers of insider attacks

            Your company will benefit from OIA’s ability to identity how, when and on what device individual privileged users utilized their privileged access and also providing historic details of confirmed and potential violations of its use, (Oracle, 2008).  This will assist in posturing your organization for taking an intuitive approach to improper usage of elevated access, which can also facilitate policy improvement and raise overall awareness.  Oracle provides a fluently adaptable platform to most business infrastructure environments.  “The OIM application is designed to manage user access privileges across all of a firm’s resources throughout the entire identity management lifecycle without requiring changes to existing infrastructure, polies or procedures, effectively minimizing costs by avoiding the need for customizations,” (Oracle, 2016).  The utilization of assigned roles is not set in stone as the OIA application must provide an approval to confirm the business needs of requesting changes to ensure they are in line with the current organizational objectives.  This product is constantly learning from policy updates and will effectively provide system wide monitoring and management for privileged access.

References

Gaehtgens, F., Iverson, B. & Perkins, E. (2013, December 30). Magic quadrant for identity