Top ten trends in identity management

Analyst group, Kuppinger Cole + Partners, has unveiled the ten predominant topics and trends in Identity Management in 2008, with Identity 2.0 unsurprisingly leading the way. Also featuring in this year’s top ten trends is a growing ‘superstructure’ of GRC (Governance, Risk Management and Compliance), which has become the driving force of Identity Management with a strong impact on the change from administration-focussed to business-orientated Identity Management. Other trends identified are: Open systems, SOA and IAM growing together, authentication in the context of the user, privacy and data protection regaining importance, an increase in the number of IM vendors, information and identities linked, secure online banking and Federation growing up.

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