Identity and access management (IAM) is the discipline that limits user access and enables the right individuals to access the right resources at the right times for the right reasons. In other words, it is the practice that protects you from insider threats.

IAM addresses the mission-critical need to ensure appropriate access to resources across increasingly heterogeneous technology environments and to meet increasingly rigorous compliance requirements. IAM is a crucial undertaking for any enterprise. It is increasingly business-aligned, and it requires business skills, not just technical expertise.

Enterprises that develop mature IAM capabilities can reduce their identity management costs and, more importantly, become significantly more agile in supporting new business initiatives.

In an effort to make organizations more secure, agile and resilient, IAM leaders must improve governance and strengthen privileged access management (PAM) practices to prevent breaches, establish more robust and agile authentication and authorization, and enhance consumer IAM to prevent fraud and protect privacy.

NETAND is a PAM vendor headquartered in Seoul, South Korea. NETAND was founded to function as a bridge between network and human – for safer and efficient system management amid growingly complex IT infrastructure and increasing security concerns. NETAND’s core offering for PAM is called HIWARE, which consists of multiple products for session management and identity management of critical systems including databases. It is available only as software. HIWARE is focused on PASM capabilities, and specializes in session management, monitoring and recording. NETAND does not offer PEDM capabilities.