Access Management

Core capabilities include: 

Access decisions are made across applications, cloud platforms, infrastructure, and business services. Without a centralized approach, access policies become fragmented, increasing security, compliance, and operational risk. 

Access Management provides a unified control layer that ensures the right people have the right access at the right time and under the right conditions. 

Access Management provides a centralized decision and enforcement layer that delivers consistent, risk-aware access across applications, cloud services, infrastructure, APIs, and data. 

Our Access Management solutions provide secure and seamless access to applications and services for both your employees and your customers. 

Common problems
Our solutions

Overloaded helpdesk

IT helpdesks spend too much time on routine account requests, such as password resets, profile changes and MFA setup. That takes time away from work that really matters.

Self-service for users

Users can reset their password, update their profile and set up MFA themselves. Admins get a central admin interface and APIs to manage the full user lifecycle efficiently.

Login for external users

Organizations want customers, partners and other external users to log in with accounts they already have, like Microsoft, Google, Facebook or LinkedIn. Building and maintaining those integrations yourself is complex.

Flexible identity providers

Access Management supports the most common identity providers out of the box. You can also configure your own identity providers, so every user group logs in the way that suits them.

Fragmented access control

When every application handles security and access in its own way, you lose oversight. Rules become inconsistent, and gaps are hard to spot.

One source of truth

Access Management centralises authentication and user management in a single place. Role-based access control (RBAC), groups and fine-grained permissions ensure everyone has exactly the access they need, and nothing more.

Too many passwords

Users have to remember separate credentials for every application. This frustrates them and leads to weak or reused passwords.

Centralised authentication

With one login for web, mobile and legacy applications, users sign in once and get access to everything they need. That’s easier for them and more secure for you.

Results

What can you expect?

Self service user management
Centralized authentication, authorization and API-security
Zero-trust security model
Federated identity brokering
SSO across multiple applications with fine grained access control
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Reference case

One secure, branded login for every customer

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Pixee manages digital displays and IPTV systems for companies, municipalities, restaurant chains and hospitals.

As the company grew, it needed one secure way to manage access across its platforms, while keeping each client’s own branding.

ACEN built a central access layer on Keycloak (open source) with passwordless login via magic links and a branded theme picked automatically from each client’s email domain. Customers now add and remove users themselves, departing users lose access quickly, and ACEN Managed Services keeps the platform patched and monitored.

How we handle
AM projects

Phase 1Workshops

Together, we assess your current environment, requirements and use cases to define the ideal Access Management solution and roadmap. 

Phase 2Installation & configuration

We install and configure the solution according to your requirements, security standards and integration needs. The Access Management solution will also be set up in a way to ensure high availability and scalability. 

Phase 3 (Gradual) migration

Applications and users are migrated in a controlled, phased approach, minimizing disruption and reducing migration risks. 

Phase 4 Support or Managed Service

After go-live, we provide ongoing support or take full operational responsibility through our Managed Service. 

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Every decision behind access should be deliberate and explainable.

FAQ

Everything you still wanted to know in one place

Can Access Management help modernize legacy applications?

Yes. Applications that do not natively support modern authentication standards can often be integrated through additional security components or gateways.

This can enable modern authentication and centralised access policies without requiring extensive changes to the application itself.

How does Access Management improve security?

Access Management centralises authentication and access policies, making it easier to consistently enforce security requirements across applications.

Capabilities such as MFA, centralised authorisation, session management and identity federation can further strengthen application security.

Can Access Management protect APIs as well as applications?

Yes. Access Management can also secure APIs by using tokens and authorisation mechanisms to determine which users or applications are allowed to access specific services or resources.

What is Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM)?

CIAM applies Access Management capabilities to customers and other external users. It focuses on providing secure and convenient access to digital services while supporting potentially large user populations and maintaining a smooth customer experience.

Can we use our existing identity provider?

Yes. Access Management solutions can typically integrate or federate with existing identity providers and directories. This principle is called identity brokering. This allows organisations to build on their existing identity landscape instead of replacing everything.

What is Single Sign-On (SSO)?

Single Sign-On allows users to authenticate once and access multiple applications without having to sign in again for each one. This improves the user experience while allowing authentication to be managed centrally.

Can Access Management integrate with our existing applications?

Yes. Modern Access Management solutions can integrate with a wide range of applications using standards and protocols such as OpenID Connect, OAuth 2.0 and SAML. This makes it possible to introduce centralised access management without requiring every application to manage authentication independently.

Who can benefit from Access Management?

Access Management can be used for both workforce and customer environments. It can secure access for employees and partners accessing internal applications, as well as customers accessing websites, portals and digital services.

What is Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)?

Multi-Factor Authentication adds an additional layer of security by requiring users to provide more than one form of verification.

Depending on the security requirements, stronger authentication can be applied to specific users, applications or situations.

What is the difference between Identity Management and Access Management?

Identity Management focuses on managing digital identities and their lifecycle, such as creating, updating and removing identities.

Access Management focuses on how those identities authenticate and what they are allowed to access when using applications and services.

Explore our other Identity Security Services

Endpoint Security

Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR)

Certificate Lifecycle Management (CLM)

Secrets Management

Identity Infrastructure Security

Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)

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