Title: Identity and Access Management? Where's my ROI?
Presenter: David Stearn
BIO:
For over 30 years, David has been helping enterprises discover technology solutions to solve business problems. As an Account Executive at Radiant Logic, he works with customers to leverage their existing identity investments to support upcoming business initiatives.
Presentation:
Successful businesses recognize the value of open communications within and outside of their borders. Achieving this means that the physical and virtual perimeters that had previously defined most organizations’ IT and security systems have disappeared. As a result, the role of Identity has become more critical not only for security but also for enabling effective business interaction across all constituents.
Identity and Access Management has been a difficult issue for enterprises since long before the cloud, but the rise of cloud-based applications has added a significant layer of complexity to the problem and forced enterprises to put an even bigger emphasis on identity as a way of managing access to enterprise resources. In a recent poll, CIOs indicated that:
- 30% of enterprises view security as a top concern in preventing them from taking full advantage of the cloud
- 72% believe Identity and Access Management is the key security issue for the cloud
But most CIOs feel that their investments in Identity projects have not delivered on their promises. The fact that identities are fragmented across the enterprise is a significant contributor to the failure of these projects. A survey PwC indicates that the average enterprise has 68 internal and 12 external account directories and that 75% of internal users and 38% of external users are in multiple directories. What is needed is a way to get the last mile of integration into the various identity silos that already exist within the enterprise, a way to rationalize this data, and a way to make this identity useable by application developers and projects that need it.
This session will provide insight into how to most effectively leverage your investments in identity and build a service that will allow identity to be consumed by future business initiatives as needed.