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The challenges of consumer-facing identity management, access management, and authentication differ in ways subtle and dramatic from those of the employee-facing variety. In fact, several vendors in...
Portable Identity Gives New Options To Companies, Consumers, And Clouds
Fast-moving cloud and consumer identity trends are driving shifts in how IT professionals control user access and provide personalized service to networked applications. As IT professionals move to...
You Must Invest In Commercial Solutions To Combat Sophisticated Fraud Rings
Forrester uncovered three major trends for 2011 that organizations and vendors alike must address to combat increasingly sophisticated fraud rings. First, fraud professionals should insist that their...

Software-As-A-Service Adoption Drives Federated Access; Provisioning Still Lags
The wait is over. According to Forrester's recent security survey, adoption of identity federation jumped from less than 5% two years ago to more than 12% in 2009. Why? Because software-as-a-service...
Uptake Of Individual Technologies Is Low, But Cloud Options Hold Promise
Interest in and adoption of identity and access management (IAM) technologies has been growing steadily over the past few years, fueled both by the desire to streamline processes relating to...
Market Seeks Solutions That Support Business And IT Flexibility And Compliance
Identity and access management (IAM) continues to be a fragmented field of disjointed technologies with difficult and expensive implementation cycles and even more costly efforts in the wake of bad...
Identity and access management (IAM) is the entire aspect of maintaining a person's complete set of information, spanning multiple identities and establishing the relationship among these various...