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Red Cross overhauls ID management
Red Cross overhauls ID management
By Taylor Armerding, CSO | Feb 1, 2012
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PrintThe Red Cross is a longtime leader in the human security business. It organizes disaster response, supplies nearly half the nation's blood supply, teaches life-saving skills, provides international humanitarian aid and supports military service members and their families.
But it hadn't been so much at the cutting edge of information and identity security until last March, when it was named the first recipient of the CourionCare Program for Non-Profits.
Courion, the Westborough, Mass.-based vendor of access governance, compliance and provisioning technology, donated enterprise software licenses for the company's Access Assurance Suite, which enables automated password reset and synchronization capabilities for the charity's mix of thousands of staff and volunteers.
"It was really a game changer for us," says Red Cross CISO Suzanne Hall. "I've got to manage 70,000 identities on a given day, and when I first came, we didn't have ability to invest in automated management tool sets. All our procedures were manual."
That not only made it difficult to deliver IT services to a very mobile and dispersed work force. "It also gave us trouble passing audits," she says. "The risks of unmanaged identities can be huge."
That program helped the agency reduce the risk of security and compliance breaches by automatically eliminating system access when a user changed responsibilities or left the organization.
So this past week, the Red Cross announced it is going a step further, with Courion's new Access Risk Management Suite, to help streamline its transition to the Microsoft Office 365 cloud computing platform.
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