What is Active Roles? | One Identity

Your identity landscape holds the keys to all of Active Directory, Azure Active Directory, and Active Directory-connected devices and applications. And that ecosystem is the target of most cyber attacks today. One step in the door by a malicious actor could result in a costly, damaging breach that could devastate your business. With One Identity Active Roles, you can secure, protect, and manage your AD, Azure AD, and Microsoft 365 environments across all your domains and tenants from a single interface. From a security perspective, think of Active Roles as privileged access management for AD and Azure AD. It allows you to truly delegate a least privileged access model where highly granular permissions can be applied to objects, not just by organizational unit, but based on any criteria you can imagine, ensuring that your users only have the exact access they need and nothing more. You can control the process of creating, managing, de-provisioning, and restoring objects by enforcing policies to require that your environment adheres to your data standards, audit controls, and business needs. This includes requiring certain properties, automatically generating properties, controlling properties based on rules, restricting properties to a list of options, and much more. Additionally, dynamic group memberships can adjust in real time as objects are created or modified, providing role-based access controls built according to your requirements. And when it's time to get rid of an object, a de-provisioning policy can streamline that process, controlling everything that happens behind the scenes, as well as providing an option to reverse that process in case a mistake was made. And all these changes are being tracked so you can go at any point in time and view the audit history. But why process things manually? You can fully automate time-intensive tasks, taking care of those long-awaited cleanup efforts that never got prioritized and freeing up your admins to focus on more important projects. Even better, these workflows can be automatically triggered by a certain action and can run steps before and after that action occurs, like requiring a group owner to approve any membership changes to their group or moving an object to a new OU when its department changes. In the case of life cycle management, you can fully automate the entire process by synchronizing with a data source like your HR system. In summary, One Identity Active Roles provides a Swiss army knife of tools to not only architect your directory infrastructure to be resilient to cyber threats, but to easily keep it that way. Contact One Identity today to schedule a live demonstration and to discover more about how Active Roles can help secure and protect your business.