Top 16 Reasons for IdM / IAM
June 9th, 2006 by Corbin H. Links- Significant operational cost reduction
- Reduced time to market
- Reduced complexity
- Improved Service Level Agreements (SLA)
- Improved end-user experience
- Reduced burden of compliance
- Unified security reporting
- Unified security auditing
- Improved partner integration (Federation)
- Improved user and systems management
- Improved application and infrastructure security
- Reduced risk exposure
- One step closer to SOA
- “Future Proofing” the application infrastructure and organization
- Embrace and extend existing infrastructure and internal expertise
- Enables an application security subscription model
The preceding list is by no means exhaustive, and individual organizations may have additional reasons.
Remember: Fundamentally, IAM is a set of processes and policies, which are designed implemented, and managed by people. IAM is *not* a set of tools or software.
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