ADManager Plus enhances security and efficiency for BGC Australia

About BGC Australia

BGC has been recognized as one of Australia's leading building materials and residential construction companies. Industry experts highlight that the company was founded in 1959 by Len Buckeridge and has since grown into Western Australia’s only vertically integrated construction company. Reports indicate that BGC manufactures 60% of the materials used across its businesses, reinforcing its strong position in the industry.

Company

BGC Australia

Industry

Service

Location

Australia

Employees

2,000+

Business challenges

  • Minimizing privilege risks: The leadership team at BGC Australia identified that the beginner-level staff posessed excessive privileges within the organizational AD environment. The administrative team required a tool that helps them delegate an role-appropriate permissions to its employess.
  • User provisioning gaps: Manual user creation posed risks of misconfigurations, such as incorrect domain selection for UPN and email setup. Therefore, the IT team at BGC required a solution that can standardize user onboarding.

The problem

Before ADManager Plus, managing user onboarding, offboarding, and updates was a manual process that required direct access to Active Directory. This increased security risks since L1 staff could modify, delete, or create accounts with unrestricted access.

"Security risks arose from Level 1 staff having access to create, update, and delete user accounts in Active Directory."

Paul Gascoigne, SOE Engineer

Additionally, tracking configurations such as email forwarding settings was time-consuming, making it difficult to quickly identify potential security gaps. These shortcomings prompted BGC Australia to implement an identity governance and administration (IGA) solution that helps them expedite user management tasks, such as user provisioning, security delegation, deprovisioning, with accuracy.

The solution

BGC Australia's IT team implemented ADManager Plus, ManageEngine's IGA solution. ADManager Plus' role-based security delegation feature helped BGC's administrative teams ensure that the L1 staff's permissions aligned with their tasks' requirements. This mitigated security risks while enabling efficient user onboarding and offboarding.

"ADManager Plus allows us to manage users and groups without requiring specific access to AD, ensuring a more secure environment."

Paul Gascoigne, SOE Engineer

The use of orchestration templates simplified user account provisioning, reducing human error and ensuring that UPN and email domains were assigned as predefined values. These templates helped the IT team standardize user provisioning.

BGC's IT team found ManageEngine’s support team to be highly responsive and knowledgeable.

"Support was very helpful in diagnosing issues, providing workarounds and fixes, and explaining technician creation in ADManager Plus."

Paul Gascoigne, SOE Engineer

"ADManager Plus provides a wide range of AD management capabilities with an easy-to-use UI, making daily operations simpler for L1 staff."

Paul Gascoigne, SOE Engineer

About ADManager Plus

ADManager Plus is an identity governance and administration (IGA) solution that simplifies identity management, ensures security, and improves compliance. With ADManager Plus, manage the user life cycle from provisioning to deprovisioning, run access certification campaigns, orchestrate identity management across enterprise applications, and protect data on your enterprise platforms with regular backups. Use over 200 reports to gain valuable insights into identities and their access rights. Improve the efficiency of your IGA operations with workflows, automations, and role-based access control policies. ADManager Plus' Android and iOS applications help with on-the-go AD and Azure AD management. For more information about ADManager Plus, visit https://www.manageengine.com/products/ad-manager/.

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