CA Technologies Predicts the End of Identity Management in 2015

Identity and Access Management provider CA Technologies has 5 trends you should watch for in the IAM space for 2015:

1. Organizations that are “Identity Aware” will adopt an “Identity Dial Tone.”

Businesses need “a centralized, common way” of accessing identity and authorization information due to the rise of mobile apps, and one way to achieve that is to establish an identity dial-tone, one source of identity for “all apps, across all channels,” using identity APIs.

2. Increasing adoption of mobile devices as “universal authenticators.”

The increasing drive towards multi-factor authentication and passwordless authentication inevitably leads towards the thing that everyone carries now: the mobile device. Government initiatives, Chip and PIN/Signature tech, advances in biometrics and the adoption of new payment models are making mobile devices more and more viable with every passing day as tools for authentication.

3. A shift away from Identity Management and towards Identity Access Security.

The data breaches of 2014 highlighted the vulnerability of old practices, and will therefore prompt a move away from simply managing the day-to-day environment and towards an active, security-focused effort to stop compromised insider identities from data theft and application abuse.

4. Mobility and the Internet of Things will drive an API-First architecture.

A lighter API-First architecture will be necessary “to more easily connect into the digital ecosystem” of mobile apps and the internet of things. Here’s why, according to Mobile Enterprise:

“These architectures will be better able to support the large array of user types that need to access apps and data on-premise or in the cloud and across a range of device types.”

5. Boards of directors will get increasingly involved in corporate security strategy.

Accountability for corporate execs and boards will only increase from here on out, so it makes sense that board members will increase their involvement in order to protect their companies and jobs. Security is no longer “an IT problem,” but an “Executive problem.”

I know everyone likes to make predictions at the start of a new year, but CA Technologies is a key IAM solution provider, dealing with these issues everyday on the front lines of cyber war being waged by hackers and governments against businesses everyday. Their opinion should at least be taken into your consideration.