Access Security Analytics
Access security analytics is the collection, analysis, and visualization of data about how users authenticate and access devices, applications, and workflows. It helps organizations evaluate whether their access controls support security, productivity, and efficient user experiences. By combining login method insights, application usage data, and workflow monitoring, access security analytics software can reveal inefficient authentication processes, unusual access patterns, and opportunities to improve the user experience. It is closely related to identity security analytics, credential analytics for IT teams, and access management analytics for IT teams.
A robust analytics strategy helps IT teams visualize time savings by showing which login methods allow users to access systems most efficiently. SSO statistics visualization, for example, can help teams measure the adoption and success of single sign-on (SSO) and identify gaps that may be creating friction. Analytics can also help resolve potential issues by gathering insight into failed logins, repeated authentication attempts, and other access problems. Proactive login issue detection helps IT teams identify patterns in failed or inefficient authentications before they affect more users, while proactive alerting directs attention to events that require timely review.
Access security analytics can also reduce the time required to produce and interpret reports. Pre-built reports eliminate the need to write queries for common analyses, and point-and-click analytics software lets authorized users quickly view data, apply filters, and drill down into results. Pre-built dashboards customized for an organization provide data visualization and an operational insights dashboard experience without requiring time-consuming query development. Fast dashboard creation lets IT teams assemble relevant views quickly, while end-user issue detection lets them drill down into individual users, devices, or access events and speed up resolution times. These capabilities can complement fast user assistance software by giving support teams the context they need to help users more effectively.
Trend tracking helps IT teams identify recurring login issues, changes in application use, and patterns that may require additional resources or policy changes. Workstation usage analytics can show which workstations receive the most logins, identify low workstation usage, and indicate where more training or better deployment planning might be needed. Together, these insights help teams evaluate access methods, prioritize support efforts, monitor operational performance, and strengthen access controls. Interoperability with relevant identity, access, device, and application data sources is important because fragmented information can limit the value of analytics.
Imprivata Enterprise Access Management (EAM) incorporates analytics and reporting into a broader strategy for secure and efficient access to applications, workstations, virtual desktops, and shared devices. Imprivata EAM supports access management, SSO, multifactor authentication, passwordless authentication, and analytics designed to help organizations monitor user behavior, investigate issues, and improve access controls and policies. By connecting access security analytics with the systems and workflows that users rely on, organizations can make informed decisions that improve productivity while maintaining appropriate identity security.