{"id":694,"date":"2012-04-16T14:59:17","date_gmt":"2012-04-16T14:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/?p=694"},"modified":"2012-04-16T14:59:17","modified_gmt":"2012-04-16T14:59:17","slug":"the-target-dimensions-of-identity-and-access-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/the-target-dimensions-of-identity-and-access-management\/","title":{"rendered":"The Target Dimensions of Identity and Access Management"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are so many ways of looking at IAM, but is looking at IAM differently helping you to DO anything differently? Let me explain.<\/p>\n<p>The market for IAM tools and services coalesces around 3 primary \u2018targets\u2019, or environments where managing IAM is a good idea. Those areas are (1) data, (2) systems, and (3) applications. <\/p>\n<p>In the vast majority of cases, data is the ultimate target for users of IT systems. That data may be structured, semi-structured, or unstructured, but at any one moment in time we\u2019re after some data, information, or knowledge to make a decision and\/or initiate an action. The IAM and related security industries have products that tend to focus more on data than other dimensions, products such as DLP for example. <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.gartner.com\/earl-perkins\/2012\/04\/16\/the-target-dimensions-of-identity-and-access-management\/\" title=\"Dimensioning Identity Management\" target=\"_blank\">Read more here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are so many ways of looking at IAM, but is looking at IAM differently helping you to DO anything differently? Let me explain. The market for IAM tools and services coalesces around 3 primary \u2018targets\u2019, or environments where managing IAM is a good idea. Those areas are (1) data, (2) systems, and (3) applications. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[88,6],"tags":[9,193,1345,19,134],"class_list":["post-694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-identity-space","category-news","tag-iam","tag-iam-best-practices","tag-iam-solutions","tag-identity","tag-identity-and-access-management"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p25vfy-bc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=694"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":695,"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694\/revisions\/695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}