Is your identity and access management fit for purpose?

In the old days, identity and access management (IAM) was a mainly internal affair; employees accessing applications, all safely behind a firewall. OK, perhaps the odd remote user, but they tunnelled in using a VPN and, to all intents and purposes, they were brought inside the firewall. Those days are long gone.

Today the applications can be anywhere and the users can come from anywhere. Quocirca research (Masters of Machines II, June 2015) shows almost 75% of organisations are now using cloud-based software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications with a similar number using infrastructure or platform-as-a-service (IaaS/PaaS) to deploy applications that run in 3rd party data centres. As for the users, as another recent Quocirca research report shows (Getting to know you, June 2015), they can be anywhere too.

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