by Earl Perkins | July 30, 2009 | 4 Comments
Contrary to what some may think, analysts of different firms do get together and talk from time to time. We are invited to many of the same vendor and industry summits, and it’s inevitable that you end up at the same food table or in the same sessions. The occasion is very much like when [...]
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by Earl Perkins | July 28, 2009 | 1 Comment
Sometimes we make particular issues or problems too complicated when we ponder about them too much, or write about them endlessly. That sounds a bit strange coming from an analyst, somebody that is supposed to like being paid by the word count of research. :-/. But I mean it. Take for example a topic I [...]
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by Earl Perkins | July 23, 2009 | 1 Comment
Ok, so this isn’t strictly about identity and access management– I apologize. But there ARE IAM implications to the ongoing debate in industry, government and the marketplace regarding the security of the electric, water and gas utilities of the world. Gartner has even written a note on this topic that is currently under internal review [...]
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by Earl Perkins | July 21, 2009 | 1 Comment
I’m sorry– it has been a week since the last entry. I had the gall to take some time off from our exciting adventures in IAM, and being an old guy I actually took the time. Before doing so, though, many of us (including my colleagues in other analyst firms) attended the CA Analyst Symposium [...]
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by Earl Perkins | July 13, 2009 | 2 Comments
First, this isn’t going to be some really deep technical set of comments regarding roles and entitlements– there have been some really good contributions of that from my colleagues inside and outside of Gartner. Rather, this is a comment regarding how you might want to try and explain this particular issue of “role-based provisioning”, or [...]
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by Earl Perkins | July 8, 2009 | Comments Off
Another sign of the maturation of the IAM industry in terms of available products/services and use is the renewed interest by customers in supporting multiple component IAM technologies. There are a number of reasons for this, but the most common I see now is economics. Customers would prefer to work with what they have to [...]
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by Earl Perkins | July 6, 2009 | Comments Off
With the Gartner Information Security Summit over, we have time to reflect on what all of us may have learned from the experience. It isn’t that often that we have the opportunity to all come together in one place, share ideas and question ‘established’ practices. In listening and observing everyone there, I am able to [...]
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