Higher Education

Higher Education institutes face challenges that standard identity management solutions can’t address.

This includes large and changing user populations, complex organisational structures, and intellectual property which requires secure control.

Assertiv has worked with many leading Higher Education institutes across Australia, addressing these challenges with a variety of Identity and Access Management solutions.

The solutions Assertiv can bring to the higher education sector

Faculty and students require secure access to resources from on campus and remotely
With the shift to remote learning, comes a need for risk-based approaches and policies associated with a user’s location. Together we can define the right remote access framework for your users, for example increased security measures, such as Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) whilst off-campus.

Risk associated with social logins such as Facebook
By providing restricted or limited access rights to those logging in using social IDs, such as Facebook and Google, you can control more sensitive online data, compared to more widely accessible public areas.

Online course payment and course registration creates duplicated user identities
Using the latest technology associated with Know Your Customer, and through integrating customer/sales systems to student management systems, we can ensure a seamless workflow for new students, registering once, with a single, long-lasting identity.

Securing significant volumes of personal data
Identity and Access Management systems are ideal for Higher Education institutes with large populations with varying user types, by allowing centralised management of identities. Identity and Access Management systems provide a single source of truth for personal data in one place. More secure and easier to manage than multiple databases, Identity and Access Management security policies define the storage and use of the data.

Managing multiple roles can be complex, with crossover between student, faculty and alumni
Multiple roles, flat organisation and complex structure are common in Higher Education institutes, there are different ways to address this challenge. By introducing a roles-based access control system, complex and varying user permissions can be simplified down to a single role. A roles-based access control system introduces a centralised structure for roles, a source of truth. Assertiv Consulting can help define this business structure and role hierarchy to ensure access is granted easily. Alternatively, empower the entire organisation with a self-service platform for requesting and approving access to applications and software. By decentralising access decisions, this frees IT to work on strategic projects, whilst allowing faculty, students and staff to access what they need.

Valuable research data
Our services provide Higher Education institutes support with document management in two ways. First, we can support in the discovery of the underlying document management processes, defining the delegation and policies of decisions and permissions. Secondly, we can connect your chosen Identity and Access Management system to your existing document management systems, or new ones (both cloud-based and on-prem), providing secure single sign-on for simplified access.

Higher Education non-hierarchical and complex organisation structure causes silos
With a wide, flat hierarchical structure, comes risk with IT architecture expanding into different departments (silos). We work with the top universities to define the right framework for their IT decision making, providing real-time access to audit reports.

All users need correct access on day one.
Enable all users to be productive from day one. Assertiv can support pre day one preparation, through facilitated dry-runs, all onboarding can be tested to ensure a smooth day one go-live.

Data Sovereignty in the cloud
We understand the location of your user data is vitally important. We create tailored solutions to meet your needs for data sovereignty, offering various options for public/private cloud solutions.