Welford IAG: Intelligent Identity and Access Governance

Secure Every Identity. Simplify Access Management. Protect Critical Assets.

Managing access to your organization’s systems is a critical responsibility that demands precision, security, and efficiency. With a growing number of employees, contractors, IT administrators, developers, and machine identities requiring access to resources, ensuring proper governance can become increasingly complex. Welford Identity and Access Governance (Welford IAG) is designed to streamline this process, making it easy to protect every identity—whether human or non-human—while maintaining security and enabling productivity.

Welford IAG ensures that the right individuals or systems have access to the right resources at the right time. By providing a unified platform for onboarding new hires, managing Non-Personal Technical Accounts (NPTAs), and applying intelligent privilege controls, Welford IAG simplifies identity and access governance while maintaining compliance with organizational policies.

From access requests to approval workflows, Welford IAG automates and centralizes key processes, enabling businesses to reduce risk and focus on their core objectives. It also includes robust features like a secure key vault, password management, and dynamic controls that adapt to risk, ensuring that your organization is prepared for modern security challenges.

Why Choose Welford IAG?

Secure Every Identity, Human or Machine

Welford IAG provides a unified approach to managing all identities across your organization, whether they belong to employees, IT administrators, developers, or non-human entities like machines. With intelligent privilege controls, Welford IAG ensures that access permissions are assigned dynamically without human administrator intervention.

Simplify Access Management

Streamlining access management is at the heart of Welford IAG. With features like request groups, you can bundle entitlements from multiple subsystems into predefined roles such as “HR-Admin” or “Oracle-DBA”, making onboarding faster and more efficient. Automated workflows handle entitlement provisioning and de-provisioning with ease, ensuring just-in-time access based on specified start and end times. Welford IAG also automates lifecycle management for onboarding, leaver, and mover scenarios, ensuring users consistently have the right level of access throughout their time with the organization.

Protect Critical Assets

Welford IAG safeguards your organization’s sensitive data and credentials. Its Key Vault feature enables secure creation, storage, and management of secrets and keys for both human and Non-Personal Technical Accounts (NPTAs), with API-based access for seamless integration. The Password Wallet adds another layer of security by managing account passwords. Additionally, Welford IAG supports OAuth authentication and Single Sign-On (SSO), enabling secure and seamless user access across various applications and systems.

With Welford IAG, your organization benefits from enhanced security, streamlined processes, and reduced administrative overhead, ensuring effective governance and operational efficiency.

Powerful Features of Welford IAG

1. Entitlement Management

Just-in-Time Access: Entitlements are requested for a defined period with start and end times, ensuring purposeful and temporary access.
Automated Fulfillment: Automatically provisions and de-provisions entitlements based on approvals.

2. Request Groups

Simplify Onboarding: Define request groups at the organization level, such as “HR-Admin” or “Oracle-DBA.”
Bundled Entitlements: Include a collection of entitlement requests from different subsystems for easy assignment.

3. Non-Personal Technical Account (NPTA) Management

Govern NPTAs: Create and manage service accounts, database schemas, service principals, and devices requiring access.
Approval Workflows: Implement approval processes for NPTA creation and entitlement assignments.

4. Key Vault

Secure Secret Management: Create and store secrets and keys against human or NPTA accounts.
API Access: Provide secure access to secrets via APIs using secret keys and API keys.

5. OAuth and Single Sign-On (SSO)

Seamless Authentication: Enable OAuth authentication for integrated applications.
Enhanced User Experience: Provide Single Sign-On capabilities for ease of access.

6. Password Wallet

Secure Password Storage: Safely store and manage passwords for human and NPTA accounts.
Controlled Access: Ensure passwords are accessible only to authorized users.

7. Password-Free, RBAC-Based Just-in-Time Access for Linux Servers

No Standing Access: Administrators no longer need to create user credentials on Linux servers.
On-Demand Provisioning: Users request access through Welford IAG, and upon approval, the system automatically provisions the user and required entitlements.
Seamless Access When Needed: Users can log in to the server only during the approved access window, eliminating the need for standing access without any Linux credentials.

Welford IAG: Intelligent Identity and Access Governance