The rapid adoption of mobile devices and cloud services together with a multitude of new partnerships and customer-facing applications has extended the identity boundary of today’s enterprise. For the extended enterprise, identity and access management (IAM) is more than just provisioning employees with and enforcing the appropriate access to corporate resources. It’s about the ability to oversee access by a variety of populations, from employees to partners to consumers, and protect a variety of sensitive resources (including data) that may reside on or off the organisation’s premises - all while helping to protect the organization from increasingly sophisticated cybercriminals and resourceful fraudsters.
Unfortunately, legacy approaches to IAM are failing us because they can’t manage access from consumer endpoints, they don’t support rapid adoption of cloud services, they can’t provide security data exchange across user populations, and offer no help against emerging threats.