Identity - Best Practice I

Identity governance and administration is being re-envisioned in the adoption of identity-as-a-service. While its core capabilities for access requests, provisioning, reporting, recertification etc., remain familiar, the adoption mindset in enterprises has evolved, as their use cases have evolved beyond earlier regulatory compliance drivers. The increasing sophistication of attacks and the diversity of the threat landscape has highlighted to many organizations that they should evaluate radical new approaches for securing identity and understanding patterns of access at scale. In addition, business units look to IT as an enabler of bring-your-own-services, leveraging emerging technologies for cross-organization collaboration and cross-application data management, beyond what traditional identity governance projects had previously considered in scope. These trends are motivating enterprises to re-evaluate the identity governance scenarios that are critical to address, and how IT can most effectively maintain stewardship of their organization’s information assets.

In this session, we’ll discuss how organizations have been approaching identity governance and administration differently as they look to Identity as a service, how cloud delivered identity governance and identity management aligns with adjoining IT capabilities for information protection and user behavior analytics, and what are the best practice considerations for organizations when evaluating identity governance projects and IAM challenges to address next.