December saw NTT Group select Evidian Identity Governance & Administration (Evidian IGA) as the foundation of their Identity Management Infrastructure in Japan. Eviden, part of Atos Group, provides an Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) solution to ensure governance and scalability for identity and rights management.
This implementation is one of the world’s largest IGA projects and is designed to strengthen NTT Group’s cybersecurity while ensuring governance of identity and rights management for its approximately 250,000 employees in Japan.
NTT Comware, a system integration company which mainly serves the NTT Group, had been considering an identity and access management (IAM) infrastructure to be used across all NTT Group companies in Japan. As David Leporini, director of IAM Cybersecurity Products & general manager of Evidian, reveals to ERP Today, the Group includes more than 100 companies, and “before introducing governance with our IGA solution, all entities had their own IT systems and security was siloed, with no possibility to share common business applications like procurement and billing.”
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“They could not address new personal data acts enforced by the Japanese government in 2022, such as the Japanese Personal Information Act,” he continues. “NTT Comware also had very tough operational performance requirements that the IGA solution meets – 50,000 users processed in a few hours when they move to new organizations within the NTT Group.”
In 2020 NTT Comware began evaluating Evidian IGA’s identity and rights management model, performance, and scalability. Leporini reveals to ERP Today that here there were “many competitors, mostly major Identity Governance players from the US. NTT Comware ran a Proof of Concept, which demonstrated that Evidian IGA was the best solution to address all their requirements while providing a global view and governance capability.”
According to Leporini, this is as the solution includes advanced user lifecycle, a fine grained security model, high level of customization of workflows, along with several identity reports.
“It enables full traceability of all such access requests and access decisions operations, and the periodic verification of users’ access rights through recertification campaigns.
“NTT is extremely satisfied, and they are now promoting Eviden IAM solutions to their own customers,” he reports.
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Evidian’s Leporini explains to ERP Today that NTT Group’s infrastructure provides HR information through its Identity Governance & Administration (IGA) solution with provisioning done in an automatic manner.
“ERP is more generally considered as a target application for our IGA solution enforcing the least privilege principle for all users. Evidian IGA enables all users to start working on the very first day as access rights are activated as they join the company.”
Evidian IGA is an offering from Eviden’s Evidian product line, which is focused on Identity & Access Management. With the Eviden deal, NTT Group can benefit from implemented governance processes, empowering users in charge of approving requests responsible of access rights decisions.
