by Earl Perkins | June 30, 2009 | 1 Comment
We write often about the concept of “roles” in identity & access management (IAM), but one thing we haven’t written enough about is your own role in the IAM organization, i.e. the roles, responsibilities, skillsets and prerequisites for effectively exploiting an IAM program within an enterprise. It’s really a shame, since knowing who can make [...]
Category: Uncategorized Tags: IAM maturity, IAM organization, IAM responsibilities, IAM skills, IAM training
by Earl Perkins | June 28, 2009 | Comments Off
We are preparing for the annual U.S. Gartner Security Summit in Washington, DC. Officially, it starts tomorrow evening (Sunday, 28 June) with tutorials, and then of course Monday-Wednesday. Most of my colleagues have been to all 15 of the U.S. summits and many of the international ones. I think all of us view it as [...]
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by Earl Perkins | June 27, 2009 | Comments Off
When discussing the IAM product development plans of a company like Microsoft with clients, I sometimes refer to the idea that Microsoft’s engineers have their eye on the development of a “planetary” IAM system, meaning one that is very scalable yet enterprise secure. They (and other vendors in the industry) seem to have this as [...]
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Category: Uncategorized Tags: cloud computing, IAM, IAM architecture, Microsoft, SaaS, software as a service, yk6nxfgw3d
by Earl Perkins | June 25, 2009 | 2 Comments
My colleagues in the Secure Business Enablement team here a Gartner welcome you to the Identity and Access Management (IAM) Blog! We hope this can serve as a conversational forum for some of the big issues happening in IAM and related areas, such as governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) and even further afield. While you [...]
Category: Uncategorized Tags: access management, define IAM, define identity management, Gartner, Gartner IAM, Gartner identity management, IAM, identity & access management, identity management, Idm
