2008 Trends to Watch: Identity & Access Management

Table of Contents

• DATAMONITOR VIEW
  • CATALYST
  • SUMMARY
• ANALYSIS
  • Vendors will offer stronger auditing and greater monitoring capabilities with regards to access
    • A succession of data loss incidents has highlighted the need for better access monitoring and auditing
  • Technologies such as enterprise role management (ERM) will offer more granular role management, policy management and access control within ID&AM offerings
  • The access component of ID&AM will be increasingly integrated into applications in the form of information rights management (IRM)
  • Infrastructure vendors will increase their dominance over ID&AM as elements of this market converge with the IT systems management market
  • Federated identity solutions will evolve to fit their role in enabling web services and service-oriented architectures
    • SOA concepts will also influence the way federated identity solutions are designed
• ACTIONS
  • Impact on enterprises using or planning to use ID&AM:
  • Recommendations for vendors selling ID&AM solutions
• APPENDIX
  • Methodology
  • Further reading
  • Ask the analyst
  • Datamonitor consulting
  • Disclaimer
  • List of Tables
    • Table 1: Recent examples of data loss incidents