Melissa Jacobs, Product Manager at Powell Tronics, is pleased to announce that its in-house development team has recently completed a fully integrated service with Microsoft's Active Directory and Impro's ImproNet access control system.
"The PT-AD integration service maintains the tagholder information and active status in the ImproNet system by correlating the user information and status in the Active Directory (AD) system. In addition to the single point of information entry benefit, PT-AD also allows system administrators to link AD security groups to tagholder access groups in the ImproNet system, ensuing an automated access group allocation to active tagholders," explains Jacobs.
This integration came about following numerous requests by IT-driven companies for their AD systems to be the master source of employee information, status and security allocation. Up until this time, HR departments would have to notify both the IT department and the security department simultaneously if a new employee was starting or if an employee's employment had been terminated. In most cases, a mismatch between the two systems would occur, resulting in a new employee not having access to the premises for the first few days or tags still being active on the access control system even though the tagholder was no longer an employee of the company - a major security risk.
PT-AD populates the ImproNet tagholder table with active AD user details. Should a new user be added to the AD system, PT-AD will update the ImproNet database with the new tagholder's details within seconds. If a user's account is suspended due to their password expiring or malicious activity not in line with company policy, their access tags will be suspended. Disabling a user account in the AD system due to termination of employment will result in their tag being removed from the access control system and the tagholder being made non-current and ready for archive.
In the PT-AD user interface, AD security groups are linked to the relevant ImproNet access groups. A user's security group(s) in AD is then automatically translated to an access group(s) in the ImproNet tagholder window to which the access control administrator can allocate a tag.
As PT-AD monitors changes in the AD and ImproNet systems at regular intervals, any changes to user accounts are almost immediately reflected in the ImproNet system. This service also prevents end-users from creating manual tagholder records or allocating non-relevant access groups in the ImproNet system - AD data will always take preference and any discrepancies in the ImproNet data will be discarded.
Powell Tronics is proud to have been able to respond to the growing industry trend to manage access control from one central location with its PT-AD integration. Decisions to permit access to sensitive areas and control of movement of personnel may now be controlled in line with executive IT management rather than left to irregular duplicated security procedures.
For any additional information, please contact marketing@powelltronics.com or visit www.p-tron.com.
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