THEME: Identity Management: Are We
There Yet?

With over a decade of sustained development on identity management (IdM) technologies, the market is both flourishing and flailing. As IdM vendors swarm around the most lucrative IT projects, the demand for compliance software in particular has left a permanent mark on IdM landscape. Technologies such as user provisioning, user federation, and directory services do—when judiciously applied—help organizations achieve near term audit and regulatory goals. But the presumption of centralized, command/control built into these technologies is already showing its limitations. Businesses are increasingly relying on partnerships to achieve their objectives, meaning that users and IT systems are rarely all “under one roof.” Instilling control over distributed environments is a tall order for IdM systems, but the reaction can’t be to demand businesses to return to monolithic domains. Instead, the technology must become more sophisticated to enable businesses to collaborate efficiently over distributed systems and with a diversified user population.

In the IdM sessions:

• Placing IdM projects in their proper business context
• How to use domain-centric products like Microsoft SharePoint in a multi-domain environment
• Which authentication products and practices to standardize on
• How to make roles projects effective
• How the IdM market will change over the next year
• How social style will replace command/control for IdM vendors

TOPICS:

Identity Market Overview
The identity management (IdM) market has seen tremendous growth in recent months. This competitive market is primed for consolidation as marquee vendors dominate market share and smaller vendors are being acquired or are exiting the market entirely.
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SharePoint: Fixing a Hole Where the Pain Gets In
This topic will include discussions from customers, vendors, and Burton Group analysts on how to use SharePoint effectively across business boundaries.
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Identity and Society
Identity services need to show real business value—and not just by enabling certain regulatory objectives. Identity is clearly important to organizations and to society, but can it be a moneymaker on its own?
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Authentication
Roles are potentially a crucial component of distributed IdM architecture. In theory, exchanging role information across domain boundaries can reduce the dependency on personal information while improving access control. So why is it so hard to do in practice?
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The Infrastructure Services Model: Focus on Identity Services
The IT industry needs to fulfill the promise of reusable infrastructure services based on applying the principles of SOA and leveraging open standards.
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Policy and Privilege Management: The Witches Brew of Compliance
A growing list of IdM tools stake claim to solving the compliance challenge for enterprises, leaving us with the questions
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