Many of us at work have experienced a situation where we needed to cancel accounts and accesses for a former colleague after they left the company. So you call support to make sure they have really cancelled everything necessary.

This step alone can be called identity management. Similarly, the situation when a new employee starts and someone creates an account and sets up access rights for them. As careers grow, access grows; at the end, it disappears completely. In the following article, we will explain why not to leave these tasks to the manual work of the IT department and how the introduction of identity management (IdM) will improve the security and processes in your company.

Why is it worth considering this modern security model?

Given the increasing number of cyber threats and the constantly evolving ways organizations operate, it is essential to consider new and efficient methods of data security.

We first achieved the highest AAA credit rating two years ago. We successfully retained it last year and this year we achieved this success again. In the area of payment discipline and overall financial health, we have demonstrated reliability through an independent credit rating since 2014 (cs).

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For the third year in a row, we spent the autumn Monday evenings together with participants from Czechitas on the DevOps course^(cs).

After a year, we organized the periodic OrchiConference, which was attended by colleagues from both the Prague and České Budějovice offices. We met on 11th and 12th November at the Hulín Resort, this time with the topics of Cybersecurity and IdM on the agenda.

We have been working with ISIC – International Student Identity Card for over 10 years. That’s why we’re thrilled that we were able to create a brand new mobile app for them in collaboration with SYNETECH. In its modern and secure user environment students from all over the world have their ISIC identity and all discounts at their fingertips

Having listened to the requests of the international community of users of Wren:IDM, we have prepared step-by-step recipes (samples) demonstrating key Wren:IDM features. We have put them in a “Cookbook”. It is now possible to start with Wren:IDM easily.

We first received the highest creditworthiness, AAA, a year ago (cs). And this year we have successfully retained it. We have been demonstrating reliability in the areas of payment discipline and overall financial health through an independent creditworthiness rating since 2015 (cs).

A critical vulnerability was discovered in the widely used Spring Java framework, which we also use on many of the projects we develop. Immediately after the discovery, we reviewed all projects for our customers and none of them were affected by the new vulnerability. Nevertheless, we have updated all our applications.