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Identity and Access Management 2011-12 (Technology Evaluation and Comparison Report)
Ovum, Feb 2011, Pages: 272
Introduction
Identity and acess management must be approached as a business issue and designed around business processes. It is fundamentally about how the organization works with its people and with other organizations. IAM projects must be approached with a comprehensive and long-term vision, but it is best to implement it incrementally in phases, each with a clearly defined business benefit.
Features and benefits
- IAM projects require upfront and continuous high-level business sponsorship.
- IAM is an essential tool in delivering compliance and protecting information.
- Federation of identities between collaborating organizations has been enabled by the acceptance of standards including the WS-
- family and SAML.
Highlights
IAM is a key issue for the business. Implementing a system represents a major investment and its deployment will require changes in business processes to capitalize on its benefits. However, successful projects provide a high return on investment and a payback period of less than two years is frequently achieved.
IAM is a means of implementing business strategy insofar as it relates to information processing. The issues of who the business needs to work with, the level of automation that is required in these interactions, and the depth of trust between organizations, are represented in the IAM configuration and deployment.
Your key questions answered
- The business benefits of IAM come in two main categories: productivity/ease of use, and security.
- IAM projects are neither quick nor cheap. It is essential that they have the support of senior management and that this support is sustainable.
- IAM projects are mainly about integration. The largest part of the work is in configuring the system to reflect business requirements.
- Single sign-on requires the IAM system to be integrated with each platform and application that it is required to support.
- The foundation of every IAM system is one or more corporate directories, and most support Active Directory and any LDAP compatible directory.
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