Untangling “Security Spaghetti”: How Virginia Community College System Automated Identity Management

With continuous strands of students and staff moving in and out of Virginia Community College System’s (VCCS) network of 23 colleges, identity management can quickly become a tangled web. Identity-related tasks, such as delegating administrative access to critical systems and managing access for guests, contractors, and other third-party affiliates, simply aren’t manageable at scale—without the right technology. So, when it came time to roll out multi-factor authentication (MFA) across the entire system, VCCS seized the opportunity to initiate digital transformation by migrating off of its legacy identity and access management (IAM) solutions. Discover how VCCS untangled its “security spaghetti'' with a cloud-based IAM platform that automated the full identity lifecycle across the community college system’s dynamic and fluid population of over 1 million identities and more than 200,000 active users. Attendees of this session will learn how modern IAM strengthens security, drives operational efficiencies, and delivers visibility and reporting on identity and access activities.