Entitlement is one of many new buzzwords in the identity field, promising to offer the next layer of protection for applications in an Internet environment with much more fine-grained security through enterprise entitlement management, or EEM. KCP believes that the industry is heading toward implementing centralized services that are able to process complex and lengthy decisions so a business application doesn't have to incorporate all this internally. EEM can automate such tasks as policy administration, decision and enforcement, and vendors are following widely different approaches ranging from federation-based models to the use of open standards. IT security worries and the business needs for next-generation provisioning systems are among the key drivers to be discussed in this panel, along with compliance requirements and process definitions.
