Assignment:
Healthscope is an Australian company which operates private hospitals, medical centres and International pathology services. The company operates medical/surgical hospitals as well as a number of psychiatric and rehabilitation clinics. Healthscope is a leading private healthcare provider in Australia with 46 hospitals and 52 medical centres. There are 17,000 employees working in different roles and from multiple locations.
The IT Security & Information Assurance department (ISIA) of this large organisation has several key responsibilities. including designing. planning and creating of secured infrastructure. The ISIA is led by a Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) and four security managers responsible for the key areas, such as Information & Physical security, Privacy, Business continuity, Managing Malware and Botnets, Identifying security holes and Applying appropriate remediation measures.
As the workforce becomes increasingly mobile and dispersed, Identity and Access Management (IAM) becomes more important in ensuring organisational security. With growing technological advances and recent threats to Information Security, senior management is concerned about organisational preparedness to handle, Identity and access management (IAM).
As a first step, CISO asks you, one of die Security Managers, to prepare a brief analysis report on the description of IAM, the importance of IAM, developments and finally recommend recent IAM technologies for the implementation in the organisation. Note: The report should include relevant references in appropriate referencing format.