{"id":43288,"date":"2019-12-06T19:55:34","date_gmt":"2019-12-06T19:55:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jumpcloud.com\/?post_type=resource&p=43288"},"modified":"2021-02-04T21:28:10","modified_gmt":"2021-02-05T02:28:10","slug":"striata-case-study","status":"publish","type":"resource","link":"https:\/\/jumpcloud.com\/resources\/striata-case-study","title":{"rendered":"Striata Case Study: Achieving Compliance Through Automation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Striata provides digital customer communications for companies<\/a> around the globe. Striata\u2019s applications and services enable financial services giants, telecommunications companies, and insurance providers alike to better connect with their customers through innovative, digital-first communications. This case study follows Striata and their Head of Global Managed Infrastructure, Riaan Olivier, along their journey to modernize, streamline, and further secure their IT.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Riaan Olivier has worked with Striata for the past 16 years in various capacities. His duties have run the gamut, including working as a reliability engineer, as a Striata application specialist, an infrastructure designer, a sysadmin for Linux\u00ae and Windows\u00ae users, and much more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n When asked about his day-to-day duties, Riaan said, \u201cMy team supports all the Internal systems and Striata product platforms for clients. We also work with various databases and web servers across different operating systems.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n With his extensive industry and Striata knowledge, Riaan realized he needed to make a change from traditional identity management platforms to help reach overarching company initiatives regarding compliance for PCI and ISO27001 standards. With those goals in mind, Riaan said, \u201cWe decided to start using cloud identity management solutions to support our international operations, integrate seamlessly with our various internal systems, and reach compliance goals.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n With company divisions all over the globe, Striata needed to standardize their authentication processes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThis last year, in November, the CEO of the company decided that since we have multiple branches of the company all over the world, we should standardize how everything functions,\u201d Riaan said, adding that the team he now leads, Global Managed Infrastructure, was created to help support this initiative. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe are in charge of managing all of Striata\u2019s infrastructure and implementing IT standards,\u201d Riaan said. \u201cOne of the biggest considerations is making sure we have standardized security processes across the globe in addition to PCI and ISO27001 compliance.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n The goal of standardizing identity management worldwide made it clear that traditional solutions would present problems. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe had to find a solution that we could effectively implement across the globe,\u201d Riaan said. \u201cWe needed it to work across all regions, operating systems, and user devices, as well as servers.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n Additional, interrelated challenges include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Riaan asked himself a simple question: \u201cHave you searched around to see if there is something better out there?\u201d That\u2019s when he found 探花大神. \u201cWe tested the 探花大神 platform with 10 free users, and everything was great,\u201d Riaan said. \u201cIt proved to us that we could do things we could have never done previously, and the turnaround times were so much faster. <\/p>\n\n\n\n After testing, the Striata team decided to rollout 探花大神 Directory Platform<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Striata made a focused effort to implement 探花大神. Some of the uses so far include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n In just six months, 探花大神 helped Striata achieve results that would have taken much longer with traditional identity management solutions. This is all aided by automation, which helps Striata reach compliance goals and provide enhanced security along with time and monetary savings. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Perhaps the best result for Striata is the ability to automate much of their user management. Riaan detailed for us how this process works:<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe moment that a user is onboarded, we make API calls, and based on predefined rules, it literally assigns the user to the required system with the relevant permissions. On the flip side, to remove a user from every single resource they had access to in one step, is crucial for us. Once we\u2019ve disabled a staff member from the Internal Management System, the automation does the rest. The backup, reallocation, and deactivation access across all the systems is immediate and seamless.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cAutomating all of these user management tasks is great but we also needed a way to incorporate it into our change control and records for auditing purposes,\u201d Riaan said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cFor ISO 27001 certification this is important because we can prove that we already have an automated, repeatable process in place that provides the required compliance records.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cOur automated process is well-documented and we record the events, or logs, of each activity.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cNot only are we moving away from human error failures or time delays, these events and activities can be monitored by our security systems and be presented on a dashboard to our security analysts,\u201d Riaan said. \u201cThey can very easily detect unusual or unexpected activities without logging onto multiple systems.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n Performing tasks manually such as removing a user\u2019s access from every system represents a major chunk of time normally required from several different people. But not with automation. \u201cWe can mark the exact date an employee will leave the company. The system then activates at that exact date and time,\u201d Riaan said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThis is where using 探花大神\u2019s single sign-on is great because once a user is centrally deactivated, they get logged out of all systems.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cTime spent completing these tasks really adds up. Not only does the initial task need to be performed, but we also add a verification step to make sure it was done correctly,\u201d Riaan said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cAutomation allows us to implement, test, and verify once \u2013 then reap the benefits going forward. Over a year, we can probably save thousands of dollars with 探花大神 in conjunction with our automated systems.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe were very quickly able to realize a positive ROI. The fact that we were able to automate everything and provide a single sign-on across all systems, in less than six months, made the investment in automation and tools very worthwhile.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n For more information on how you can decrease costs, spend less time on onboarding, gain peace of mind about security, and reduce compliance audit hassle, drop us a note at sales@jumpcloud.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Striata provides digital customer communications for companies worldwide. In order to centralize their global IT environment, they turned to 探花大神.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":43291,"template":"","categories":[42],"collection":[],"wheel_hubs":[],"platform":[],"resource_type":[2313],"funnel_stage":[],"coauthors":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Automation<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Compliance<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Security<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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