What is Identity & Access Management?

Management that automatizes processes to assign the right people in an enterprise the appropriate access to technology resources

Goal: increasing security and productivity, decreasing costs, downtime and repetitive tasks

4 major categories of IAM components

Authentication: Provides sufficient credentials to users to gain access to an application system or a particular resource from clients

Authorization: The module that determines whether a user is permitted to access a particular resource.

User management: The module that defines the set of administrative functions such as identity creation, propagation, and maintenance of user identity and privileges.

Central User Repository: Stores and delivers identity information to other services, and provides service to verify credentials submitted from clients

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IdM Market Overview

Sun

IBM

Oracle

2007

Novell

Courion

CA

HP

Siemens

Golden era of IDM

Sun

IBM

Oracle

2012

NetIQ
(Novell)

Courion

CA

HP

Atos
(Siemens)

Microsoft

Hitachi

R.I.P

S.O.S.

Quest

SAP

SailPoint

Post-crisis consolidation

Dell

Fisher

Evidian

Avatier

Illex

Omada

Sun

IBM

Oracle

Reality

NetIQ
(Novell)

Courion

CA

HP

Atos
(Siemens)

Microsoft

Hitachi

R.I.P

S.O.S.

Quest

SAP

SailPoint

Dell

Fisher International

Evidian

Avatier

Illex

Omada

MS only

Zombie

$$$expensive

$$$$$$veryexpensive

$$$expensive

$$$expensive

$$$$$$$$$$insanelyexpensive

exotic

exotic

Commercial IDM

Sun Identity Manager (Oracle Waveset)Popular

Acceptable quality

R.I.P

Oracle Identity Manager (OIM)Strong database orientation

Very difficult to deploy

Very few real references

EXPENSIVE

Commercial IDM Summary

Famous, good marketingSales networks, magic quadrants

Vendor lock-in

Expensive, very expensive

High initial investment (licensing)Almost impossible to deploy in small steps

Nightmare to deployDifficult to customize

(Very) expensive consultants

Problematic support

Partners suffer
all the work, no profit

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