Axiad Conductor offers intuitive management for authentication processes, streamlining tasks like YubiKeys and smart card issuance, catering to organizational needs with a user-centric approach.
Axiad Conductor facilitates credential lifecycle management and multi-factor authentication by simplifying the deployment and management of authentication devices. "One Click Issuance" ensures easy user enrollment in a cloud environment, reducing administrative burdens. While interface enhancements and authenticators' nickname features could improve usability, its approach to managing cryptographic credentials and handling smart cards and YubiKeys stands noteworthy. Although Apple's macOS changes present challenges, Canadian hosting preferences are recognized.
What are Axiad Conductor's main features?
- User-Friendly Management: Streamlines the process with minimal steps for issuing devices.
- Credential Lifecycle Management: Allows users to self-update and manage credentials with ease.
- Managed Cloud Environment: Reduces administrative efforts by addressing needs flexibly.
- One Click Issuance: Facilitates easy enrollment and updates of user authentication elements.
What benefits or ROI do users find valuable?
- Simplified Deployment: Quick setup and management of authentication devices save time and resources.
- Enhanced Security: Robust update and lifecycle management bolster organizational security.
- User Autonomy: Self-update capabilities empower users and reduce support overhead.
- Regulatory Compliance: Meets stringent compliance needs through effective certification processes.
In industries where multi-factor authentication is critical, Axiad Conductor is widely implemented for internal and contractor workforce authentication, managing PKI on smart cards, and YubiKeys for VPN and local access. The ability to manage smart cards and machine certificates aids in maintaining regulatory compliance, while the transition to cloud-based certificate management streamlines operations and supports seamless integration.
The Symantec Identity Governance and Administration (formerly CA Identity Suite) provides comprehensive identity management and governance capabilities with a simple, intuitive user experience. This user experience can dramatically simplify processes such as user access requests and access certifications, resulting in improved productivity and user satisfaction. In addition, the Symantec Identity Governance and Administration performs risk analysis and certification and enables remediation actions in real-time during the access provisioning steps, thereby improving audit performance and risk posture with preventive policy enforcement.
While providing these business and governance-centric capabilities for business users, the Symantec Identity Governance and Administration also delivers core enterprise-grade identity management and governance capabilities, including broad provisioning support for on-premise and cloud apps, extensibility and flexibility to integrate with other IT systems and consumer-grade scale. This means organizations are not forced to choose between usability and performance. With the Symantec Identity Governance and Administration, they can have both.
