pinSpark Overview

Managing employee access rights to the multiple IT systems found in today's typical enterprise is a major administrative and security challenge. It's also, often, a very costly one. An organization not only needs to ensure that all employees receive access rights to IT systems in a timely manner, but that it is done in way that complies with federal and state regulations, and with all corporate security policies. To prove compliance and ensure the security of data, organizations must also have the ability to monitor user access rights and to provide auditors with proof of compliance.
A role-based access management and compliance application such as Pinnacle Security Solutions’ pinSpark can provide a cost-effective solution.

Pinnacle's pinSpark provides a suite of processes and reporting features to reduce compliance costs and automate the assignment of user accounts. It speeds user provisioning through the use of role-based assignment of access rights to employees and by automatically checking users' roles and security privileges against defined policies and regulations.
The pinSpark system matches IT resources and user identities according to business roles, so that employees are given the access they need--and not more. Its unique pattern-based role automation capabilities allow you to generate policy and manage roles with minimal effort.

The system’s role engineering algorithms, which leverage Pinnacle's proprietary heuristics, generates an optimal set of roles for each organization and for individual users, based on their job functions and IT needs. A risk management component of the solution allows organizations to gauge risk exposure and mitigate risk through proactive usage monitoring, policy enforcement, reporting, and auditing.
The user-friendly Web interface provides easy-to-use management and reporting features that IT staff can use to quickly define security policies, create and assign user roles, and produce reports on recent user activities, employee job and role changes, potential security conflicts and risks, and on compliance for specific regulatory or internal security policies--such a HIPAA and SOX.
The solution continually monitors and optimizes roles on a scheduled basis, so users have the exact permissions they need at any given point in time. This eliminates “role decay” and “role accumulation” problems that leave users with access they don’t need--and provides potential data thieves with dormant accounts they can manipulate.
pinSpark™ identifies hard-to-catch breaches and highlights offending access privileges, helping enterprises get a tight grip on compliance issues and prevent future errors.

Key Benefits

    Automate manual processes and tools, reducing errors and administrative time
    Instantly detect Segregation of Duties (SOD) violations
    Quickly achieve compliance with security policies
    Schedule audits and certification reports
    Improve IT audit preparedness
    Generate comprehensive, flexible reports
    Provide the basis for an IT-GRC initiative
    Interoperates, out-of-the-box ,with IAM systems and other enterprise repositories
    Makes customization and personalization easy with Web-based interface