About Informatica

The digital revolution has escalated expectations and businesses globally must match them to stay relevant. People now expect better services, faster delivery, and reduced costs.

Informatica, being the global leader in Enterprise Cloud Data Management, is all set to help your business succeed in your niche. It provides you with the foresight to become more agile, realize new growth opportunities, or create new inventions. It provides the adaptability required to succeed in your industry with an emphasis on data. Learn more about Informatica and how to use data to create your next smart disruption.

Introduction

The success of any business is largely dependent on its open flow of information, and this dependency comes with its own set of liabilities. Organizations are continuously struggling to achieve a balance of open and secure. Using Cloud Master Data Management (MDM) for integrating data from multiple sources into a single system complicates the security model and governance requirements. Hence, having an appropriate and reliable security mechanism in place is very critical for ensuring that you can securely share data with internal and external entities and each of these entities has the right level of access as and when needed.

Informatica MDM Cloud — Reference 360 helps you meet all these requirements while also enabling users to master their reference data and adhere to any regulatory obligations.

Informatica’s Intelligent Cloud Services  (IICS, now IDMC) comes with a security framework built into it making the Informatica MDM Cloud — Reference 360 service offerings, the most comprehensive and flexible security framework. It provides data access security along with the ability to govern, access, and manage security from the baseline. Security administrators and data stewards can tailor user views based on responsibilities, operating groups, and regulatory needs using the IICS security configuration. This feature is specifically beneficial for organizations that are subject to industry or government regulatory obligations by helping them operate in sync with regulatory guidelines and ensuring compliance.

The Challenge

Today's digital era is so dynamic that organizations need to continuously improve their processes to match the competition. A very essential factor to achieving this is having an efficient method for managing, understanding, and reporting risks. Organizations are dependent on their MDM programs to provide a reliable single version of master data throughout the organization, be able to be agile when adjustments are needed, and be able ot serve it and use it across the different organization departments. Although very few MDM programs are built to protect this critical business asset.

This is significant, especially since data-driven disruptions with intelligence have become a key component of defining business strategies. While many organizations use MDM to achieve business-driven objectives, they must ensure security.

Overview

Informatica's Master Data Management Cloud solution is customizable and extensible to satisfy a wide range of security needs, such as IAM (identity and access management), data security, and monitoring.

• We enable industries to define and enforce data authority policy directly in the data model and map that to a role-based authorization system. This ensures that the method of interaction with master data abides by the organization’s privacy/compliance/data governance policies.
• For data domains, we offer role-based security and access control for all data assets across all interfaces for all data domains.

IAM (Identity and Access Management)

Informatica MDM Cloud — Reference 360 provides state-of-the-art security access controls to prevent any unauthorized access to the data, functionality, and resources. This access control is based on roles and clearly defines the level of privileged access, entitlements, and expertise a user or group can have. It also aligns these privileges with the internal security and access control policies of the organization that manages the master data.

Administrators can define the authorization policies by defining the level of privileges to user roles and then assigning users to these roles. These privileges define what level of access a user can have over a certain resource, feature, or functionality. It ensures that the right people have the right level of access and the resource if available at the right time.

Here is a logical illustration of Role-Based Access Control (RBAC).