An identity and access management as a service (IAMaaS) offering has been launched by the TD SYNNEX Security Practice, enabling partners to offer a managed service to their customers without having to invest up-front or waiting until they have developed their own capabilities.
► Partners can offer comprehensive, reliable, pro-active, identity and access management without making up-front investment
► Effective protection that is easy to sell, deploy and manage
The growing threat from cybercriminals and the shift to hybrid working practices has made the management of identities and network access a much greater challenge for organisations. They now have to manage much more distributed and virtual groups of users, making sure that users have access to the applications and services they need, while also safeguarding systems and data from infiltration.
Many customers don’t have a policy or a solution in place
Alison Nixon, director, security, Advanced Solutions, TD SYNNEX, UK & Ireland, said. “Identity and access management is right on the front line of enterprise digital defences and should be a critical element of every organisation’s security posture. But many customers don’t have a policy or a solution in place – and many partners do not have the in-house skills and capabilities to manage IAM for their customers. Our service breaks that impasse, providing our partners with a managed IAM service that they and their customers can trust.”
The TD SYNNEX IAMaaS service offering is designed to be easy to sell, deploy and manage. It makes use of tried and tested IAM services provided by select industry partners and offers protection in the three key areas – access management, identity governance and administration, and privileged access management. Making use of Active Directory and Azure Active Directory as its foundation, it provides a set of practice frameworks and technologies for the establishment of secure access and to ensure privileged access and administrator activities are always secure, audited, and fully under control.
IAMaaS is the latest in a wider portfolio of managed security service offerings from TD SYNNEX. A Security Operations Centre as a Service (SOCaaS) was made available recently and TD SYNNEX is also working on other security services, some of which will be launched before the end of the year. Security partners and MSSPs will be able to access all the expertise of the TD SYNNEX Security Practice team to position, articulate, and deliver these services to their customers.
By providing these ready-to-deploy services, TD SYNNEX is enabling partners to offer a wide range of managed security services without making up-front investments while building their own skills and capabilities. This allows partners to take a low-risk approach as they build their own security practice and capabilities as an MSSP. Services can be offered as an extension of a partner’s own portfolio.
Partners that want to build a long-term security business can make use of TD SYNNEX’s Security Practice Builder to define their strategy, follow a tailored development pathway, and become a trusted advisor on security and data protection for their customers.
