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Why converge identities?

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Why converge identities?

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A sensible reason for converging identities is that when disconnected logical and physical identities proliferate, it’s time-consuming, expensive and inefficient to manage them. That’s true for IT, for physical security, for risk managers and business units. These inefficiencies are most apparent in regulatory compliance, the big driver behind many identity management projects. Meeting regulatory compliance standards is more difficult when identities multiply, because correlating the actions of disconnected physical and logical identities across systems, assets and facilities is usually a manual, labor-intensive process. Another issue is that security can be more easily compromised when physical and logical identities are separate. A physical identity may appear legitimate to a standalone PACS, but what if that identity is no longer trusted by the enterprise network? That’s what happens when an employee is terminated in the logical systems, but that information isn’t immediately relaye

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