The rapidly changing security perimeter: Challenges of managing identity and access

Cloud adoption, mobility and the consumerisation of IT present the opportunity to transform the way employees, partners and customers do business. But as organisations move to leverage these new capabilities, it’s become obvious that the IT environment is quickly becoming more distributed.

“The data centre has become more of a virtual concept and is highly fragmented, rapidly oozing around the once comfortable perimeters of firewalls and VPNs that were so carefully constructed over the last decade,” says Jaynean Leaupepe, NZ Country Manager at Arrow ECS ANZ. “Fortunately, new identity standards can be leveraged to fill the gaps left by the disappearance of the traditional perimeter as we know it. Identity is the common denominator. Identity is the new security perimeter for the fragmented IT data centre.”

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