Case Study Healthscope is an Australian company which operates private hospitals, medical centres and
International pathology services. The company operates medical/surgical hospitals as well as
a number of psychiatric and rehabilitation clinics. Healthscope is a leading private healthcare
provider in Australia with 46 hospitals and 52 medical centres. There are 17,000 employees
working in different roles and from multiple locations.
The IT Security & Information Assurance department (ISIA) of this large organisation has
several key responsibilities, including designing, planning and creating of secured
infrastructure. The ISIA is led by a Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) and four
security managers responsible for the key areas, such as Information & Physical security,
Privacy, Business continuity, Managing Malware and Botnets, Identifying security holes and
Applying appropriate remediation measures.
As the workforce becomes increasingly mobile and dispersed, Identity and Access
Management (IAM) becomes more important in ensuring organisational security. With
growing technological advances and recent threats to Information Security, senior
management is concerned about organisational preparedness to handle, Identity and access
management (IAM).
As a first step, CISO asks you, one of the Security Managers, to prepare a brief analysis
report on the description of IAM, the importance of IAM, developments and finally
recommend recent IAM technologies for the implementation in the organisation.

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