Conventional identity management solutions, which are mostly software based, are too costly, take longer implementation and integration times. These solutions are API, agent based. This poses a big challenge in terms of offering connectivity to wide variety of applications that enterprises have in a shorter span of time at lower costs. Apere's IMAG© enables organizations to implement a comprehensive Identity Management solution in less than a week at a fraction of cost. Apere.s patent pending Rapid Connector platforms provide Agent Less, Non-API based connectivity to AD, non-AD, web enabled, client/server, custom/legacy applications, and network devices.

Enterprises adopting NAC technologies and its implementation however are facing certain challengedparticularly when it comes to guest user access provisioning. Guest user assets such as Laptops, Desktops etc. areun-managed and can not be brought under theNAC framework. They are always non-compliant and are automatically put in restricted access zone. In addition to the above challenge, the following are some of the other pain points and aspects of concern for enterprises adopting NAC.

• All the guest user account management isdone manually.
  
• In NAC environment, this results in increased help desk calls, increasing the NAC rollout time and costs

Corporate computing environments are becoming more complex. The presence of innumerable applications in a large computing environment coupled with the presence of knowledge workers, working from within the organization and remotely, the issues related to timely resource access/revocation are plenty. There is also the issue of productivity wherein a new user joining an organization has to wait for numerous approvals and IT related issues to enable them to access the resources. This delay causes a lot of money in terms of lost productivity. Inability to scale Identity Management operations involving legacy or custom application servers can be a real pain. Industries seek out the best fit to meet their requirements at a given point in time. But as their workforce expands, organizations begin to feel the need to scale up their Identity Management infrastructure.

Apere offers a solution to these problems with industry-standard and cutting-edge Identity Management solutions. Apere’s low-cost, highly effective and easy-to-use Identity Management Access Gateway (IMAG), with its direct connectivity to a wide variety of applications through innovative mechanisms enables enterprises to achieve significantly greater ROI in a much shorter span of time.

With introduction of internet and businesses becoming global, there is a major change the global work force. With Mobile work force, Contractors, Telecommuters, Consultants, Customers and business partners trying to access the corporate network, there is been a huge acceptance of remote connectivity solutions such as SSLVPN, IPSEC VPN and NAC. These technology introductions is a great business enabler but throws another challenge of ascertaining that remote users have access to the right applications, for the right amount of time and as and when they need it. On an average every user holds more than 5 passwords in an organization which needs to be individually remembered. There are certain set of users who need to remember around 20. As the number of passwords that need to be remembered keeps growing, the end users and the organizations are either forced to simplify the password rule thereby jeopardizing the security of the application or should expect several IT help desk calls for forgotten passwords. Several organizations mandate the need for frequent change of the passwords and statistics indicate that 71% application passwords need to be changed every month which increases the password management and IT help desk calls.

The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) is a set of minimum security guidelines put in place to protect sensitive credit card data. Companies are required to have the tools to ensure continuous monitoring, identify, report and investigate audit trails and conduct risk analytics to protect critical data. The all-in-cost of a fraudulent or erroneous data breach can range from $182-$350 per data record

Apere offers a solution to these problems. With industry-standard and cutting-edge Identity Management solutions, Apere’s low-cost and highly effective, easy-to-use Identity Management Access Gateway (IMAG), enables you to directly connect to a wide variety of applications, ensuring that while you do not need to throw out something that works just fine, you achieve significantly greater ROI in a much shorter span of time.

Apere’s IMAG500 brings to the market a unique appliance based identity management solution which is positioned very uniquely to address most of the access- related controls for PCI compliance making it an ideal solution that can be looked at for the Payment card industry. The self service password management features, integration with SSO solutions like imprivata strengthens the offerings from Apere to suitably address the payment card industry market space.