Quest’s Solution Marries Identity Management with Data Governance

Identity management with data governance makes sense, explains Jonathan Sander, director of Quest Software (now owned by Dell) Identity and Access Management Business Development, because it’s all about managing roles. Sander explains to IT Business Edge’s Loraine Lawson why Quest decided to offer a separate solution, the Quest One Identity Manager Data Governance Edition, and how its roots in identity management make it a great governance solution.

Lawson: Why does Quest deal with data governance under its identity management division?

Sander: Governance in general does tend to fall under identity and access management, and I think the key here is that it falls mostly under the access management portion of it. I always like to think of it more like identity management and access management.

Access governance is really focused on applications — what roles does this person have in SAP? What websites may this person access in the portal? Those are questions for what has been traditionally called access governance, whereas data governance has been more about what file shares may this person access.Quest’s Solution Marries Identity Management with Data Governance…