{"id":69,"date":"2013-12-29T16:16:06","date_gmt":"2013-12-29T16:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/?p=69"},"modified":"2014-01-06T16:17:34","modified_gmt":"2014-01-06T16:17:34","slug":"a-new-focus-for-iam-solutions-to-address-enterprise-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/a-new-focus-for-iam-solutions-to-address-enterprise-concerns\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Focus for IAM Solutions to Address Enterprise Concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Identity<\/a>A recent Wired article points to Identity and Access Management as the solutions to IT handling security concerns in the enterprise as we continue to see surges of BYOD and increased mobility. They site a recent survey conducted that showed 42 percent of IT decision makers are \u201csignificantly concerned\u201d with security of application and corporate data being access through employee owned mobile devices. They write that \u201cConsequently, many are turning to identity and access management (IAM) solutions to help manage user access.\u201d<\/p>\n

What is interesting about this observation is that traditional IAM solutions have not seemed to entirely catch up with this new wave of mobility and off site-cloud access that have swept through enterprise across the globe. Wired even writes that organizations are \u201cgrappling with how to address new challenges in IAM with the legacy solutions in which they\u2019ve already invested.\u201d While IAM will always be something that enterprise\u2019s need to focus on, maybe this shows us a little bit about where IAM solution provider\u2019s focus will be in the near future.<\/p>\n

In order to address some of these new issues IT is facing most have created ad-hoc or patchwork infrastructures. The same study reveal 3 main goals enterprises are interested in address through IAM as we move towards this new mobile environment. Those interests are as follow:<\/p>\n