Effective Ways Of Modernizing Access To Peoplesoft Applications

By Author: Abdul Saleem
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The way we work has changed dramatically during 2020, with the COVID-19 pandemic spreading like wildfire. More workers are working from home than ever before. This modern reality necessitates that companies provide safe and secure remote access to essential work apps and services. Widely used Oracle PeopleSoft applications are getting a second look as part of that. Owing to the highly sensitive data they contain, business-critical applications to handle employee lifecycles, monitor purchase orders, or perform other functions come with inherent risk. Securing such applications to ensure that access is allowed for just the right people remains a significant challenge for organizations as those using legacy identity and access management (IAM) software are dealing with an increased number of hacking and phishing issues recently.
For most of the workers now working from home, the ways they access PeopleSoft are evolving, and the ways it is secured must also be updated to accommodate the changing demands. It is especially true as, by December 2020, Oracle will stop support for Oracle Access Manager, the 11gR2 access control ...
... middleware originally included with PeopleSoft software package. With budget constraints and a limited number of IAM providers competing with urgent remote access and enhanced security requirements, it is understandable that organizations are considering how best to solve this critical issue.
Changing Realities and Dynamic Demands
Making the transactions mobile-friendly in PeopleSoft applications is a strategic move toward improving the user experience. Organizations are promoting online access to self-service modules such as registration of benefits, time entry, approvals, and self-service for students so that users can complete tasks on their own time and even on their own devices. Given the benefits of mobilizing and enabling remote access of applications for PeopleSoft software suite, security implications remain one of the major concerns. Expanding access to confidential data beyond a protected perimeter of the corporate network raises the likelihood of attacks and more breaches that succeed in their intentions. While hackers are increasingly targeting individual users and devices using the human-error factor to their benefit, the emergence of user-centric threats is also adding to the risk.
The Security Imperatives
As per a recent study, eighty-one percent of cyber attacks are done involving stolen credentials.
The Appsian Security Platform helps PeopleSoft clients to adopt a structured approach to security. This capacity assists organizations in mitigating the threat of unauthorized access.
As companies expand access to applications outside their firewall, hackers prey on the ease of access and target users for login credentials. Having a single layer of authentication isn't enough in today's data security landscape.
With a majority of Oracle ERP customers reporting a breach recently, it has become clear that identity authentication and access control are serious challenges. To secure these programs from the various internal and external threats that aim to circumvent them, companies need to significantly improve their Identity and Access Management Controls. With PeopleSoft, Appsian rapidly incorporates existing multi-factor authentication (MFA) solutions, thereby allowing contextual compliance. Context-aware MFA implementation matches security with risk, providing an extra layer of authentication.
It is recommended to add multi-factor authentication to PeopleSoft. The integration of security solutions for PeopleSoft and MFA, however, is difficult. In the absence of integration, deployment rules are overly rigid and impose tasks - causing user pushback. Integration is recommended to better match the multi-factor authentication implementation with a degree of access risk.
Your investment in an ERP plan delivers significant ROI over its lifespan. The best way to ensure your users stay productive is to extend remote access and allow mobile transactions. With an elaborate suite of access controls and fine-grained security features, Appsian helps organizations secure their ERP data. Appsian is the only solution that installs natively into your PeopleSoft application server and offers contextual access controls, better logging, and analytics.
We fully understand it can be overwhelming to have an enlarged threat field, but Appsian will help you face those challenges head-on.

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