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THE FUTURE OF IDENTITY AND

ACCESS MANAGEMENT (IAM)

The future of Identity and Access Management (IAM)

The future of the Cloud Identity Management (IAM) is shiny & bright, with both

SMBs and enterprise businesses pouring in money to protect their data and

digital assets.

A new report by Allied Market Research projects that the global cloud IAM

market would garner revenue of $2.8 billion by 2020, registering a CAGR of

26.2% during the forecast period 2015 – 2020.

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Varied technological environments, increasing cyber-attacks, strict regulatory

compliances, and increasing digital identities across organizations, are

propelling the need of IAM services for information security. With this high stake

involved, it’s natural for businesses to look towards the cloud to manage their

digital identities, both inside and outside an enterprise.

Traditional concepts for Identity and Access Management that have been

focused on the internal IT are no longer sufficient. We still need some of these,

but they cover only a fraction of the future scope – and for some organizations

already today’s scope – of Identity and Access Management.

The following measures for future Identity and Access Management might help

organizations shape their own strategy and roadmap for Identity and Access

Management.

#1: More than humans – It’s about Identities of things, devices, services, and

apps

In this connected world, everything has an identity – whether it is something like

a smart meter, one of the various connected elements in connected vehicles, or

wearable tech. All of them require access to be managed through apps, services,

devices, etc.

The numerous identities has changed the way in which they are accessed and

interfaced with other humans, things, devices, services and apps. It requires

authentication and management of relationships between identities.

#2: Multiple Identity Providers – Varied options

There is no central directory anymore, neither for humans nor for all the other

things and services. It’s impossible to manage millions of customers spread

across the world. Plus, the customers want to re-use identities across apps,

services and companies encouraging the BYOI (Bring Your Own Identity)

concept.

#3: Multiple Attribute Providers – Information on identities

The Identity and Access Management, will now be the source of information for

Cloud, Mobile, and Social Computing, OT (Operational Technology) security,

APIs (through which the apps, services and systems interact with each other

through and which need to be protected) and the apps, and the Internet of

Things. There will be many sources of trust for various attributes.

#4: Multiple Identities – Many users with different identities and flexibly to

switch

A single user may have multiple identities within a same organization. He could

be an employee, a freelance contractor, and a customer of the same corporation

all at the same time. Organizations have to understand that it is still the same

person, when he switches from one account to another.

#5: Multiple Authenticators – There is no single authenticator that works for

all

There are so many different types of identities and related elements, that it’s

not feasible for a single method of authentication which will guarantee security

of your identity. There is no single approach that we can rely on. IAM will have

to support different authentication mechanisms such as Risk Based

Authentication, biometrics, single sign on etc., while understanding the risk and

making risk-aware access decisions.

#6: Context – Identity and Access Risk varies in context

A key concept of Future Identity and Access Management is context. Which

device is someone using? Which type of authentication? Where is the device

used? There are many elements that make up the context. Depending on that

context, risk varies. Identity and Access Management has to become risk-based

and, with the ever-changing context, dynamic. While today’s static access

controls implicitly reflect a risk understanding in a static context, future access

controls and decisions must become dynamic to adapt to the current context.

Keeping these fundamental measures in mind, Sysfore can help you build a

secure, and protected cloud environment for your business. You contact us at

info@sysfore.com or call us at +91-80-4110-5555 to know more.