Aveksa approaches access governance from a unique perspective, since we're designed from the ground-up to solve the challenges and scale inherent in access governance. Unlike other solutions, which may have evolved into access governance from another, adjacent space, we were designed to address access governance from day 1. This is reflected in many of the design points of our ControlXS™ architecture.
As a purpose-built solution, we're designed to handle the data types, complexity, and messiness inherent in typical enterprise environments. And, we can scale to efficiently handle millions of identities, accounts, and entitlements. In fact, many of our customers have millions of entitlements under management, at some of the world's biggest and most complex enterprises.
At the heart of our architecture is the Access Management Database (XMDB™). Our XMDB uniquely provide organizations with a centralized, reliable source of truth about who has access to what in the enterprise -- across all applications and data sources. As a purpose-built solution, we can scale to handle the number of identities, accounts, and entitlements under management at even the largest enterprises.
Ultimately, we enable IT to shift responsibility and accountability for making access decisions to the people in the organization who have the best knowledge and context – the line of business. Thinking clearly about it, it's simply not right to ask IT or InfoSec to make access decisions about hundreds or thousands of users, who they know very little about. The right people to make these decisions are the business managers…the users' supervisors. Our solution, the Aveksa Access Governance Platform, is made of up four modules, which allow customers to incrementally approach Access Governance: