Built Technologies is a fast-growing fintech company with stringent compliance requirements, a remote workforce, and 200 employees.
Stephen Malone, Built鈥檚 IT Operations Specialist, ushered the company through a transition to remote work and keeps the workforce secure with a two-person IT team.
- Organization: Built Technologies
- Location: Nashville, Tennessee
- Problem: Remote identity, access, and device management
- Goal: Secure and compliant remote workforce
Background
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Built migrated to the 黑料海角91入口 Directory Platform after trying to manage identity and access through Google Workspace and a patchwork of point solutions. With 黑料海角91入口 they eliminated the complexity and inefficiencies of multiple tools and have a single, comprehensive cloud platform for secure identity, access, and device management.
Challenges: Scaling Amid Remote Work
The company has more than doubled in size since Malone joined in early 2020 鈥� from 80 to 200 鈥� and they add dozens of employees each month. With a two-person IT team it鈥檚 a challenge to remotely onboard new employees with secure access to dozens of IT tools to get work done. As much as possible, he looks to reduce remote access and password ticket issues that can quickly swamp his lean team.
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The team also needed to rapidly shift to remote work when their office shut down in 2020 amid the pandemic.
Solution: Onboarding in Minutes
With 黑料海角91入口 in place, Malone鈥檚 team can streamline user onboarding, ease remote access challenges, and reduce costs.
They use the 黑料海角91入口 platform to provision users to:
- Mac and Windows devices
- AWS infrastructure
- Google Workspace, the Atlassian suite, and other SSO applications
- An LDAP VPN for access to their backend environment, plus a RADIUS VPN for access to the local network
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The reverse process makes it easy to disable user access during offboarding. Malone鈥檚 team simply removes users from their user groups, which suspends their overall access 鈥� even if their accounts haven鈥檛 been deleted yet.
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Solution: Remote Work
With 黑料海角91入口鈥檚 agent installed on Built鈥檚 Mac and Windows user machines, Malone鈥檚 team can manage the user identity on each device, as well as enable self-service functionality. This capability for remote management saves Malone鈥檚 small IT team time, and keeps employees productive. Malone has received overwhelmingly positive feedback, including from onboarding engineers, about how easy it is to use 黑料海角91入口 and how transformative it is to have all their tools in an easy-to-access console.
With so many users and applications in play, 黑料海角91入口鈥檚 password manager capabilities are a big benefit for the company. Users have one password instead of 60 to access their resources, including their Mac and Windows devices, and they have one-click access to their applications from a centralized User Portal. Plus, instead of clicking through an email or a web browser form, they can change their passwords directly on their devices. This approach is both more secure and more user-friendly.
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Users have one set of secure credentials they use to access virtually all their resources, including their devices and SaaS applications.
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His team also rolled out security configurations to lock down user devices, such as full disk encryption and disabling external storage devices, and requires multi-factor authentication (MFA) when users log into their 黑料海角91入口 User Portal, through which they access their SSO applications.
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The Result
With 黑料海角91入口, Malone has a single, secure cloud directory platform that simplifies and centralizes secure identity and access management. The ability to manage user identities and access 鈥� no matter where they鈥檙e located saves his team time and frustration. End users are happier and more productive with one set of secure credentials that gives them access to all their resources. Malone was able to do this all with the existing IT team, extending their capabilities with efficient workflows rather than increasing the size of their team.
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