To compete in the new economy, organizations need to provide efficient and secure access to their internal applications and data for external entities, such as business partners, customers, and mobile employees. Users need to access diverse systems and resources on the corporate network, from different types of devices. But because many of these systems don't communicate well with each other, individual users often need to use multiple identities. This proliferation of user IDs and passwords can create burdensome manual practices and inconsistent security policies. As a result, managing these redundant identities and access privileges becomes complex, wastes time, and increases security risks due to errors.

The Identity and Access Management (IAM) solution is part of Microsoft's Business Ready Security approach. The Identity and Access Management solution enables more secure, identity-based access to applications both on-premises and in-the-cloud from virtually any location or device. Read this data sheet to learn more.