New research from the global analyst firm, Ovum has examined the impact of Cloud computing and identity-as-a-service (IaaS) on the IAM sector. As per the research, Cloud provides significant problems and opportunities for the identity and access management (IAM) industry. It is a disruptive technology that is challenging the status quo within the IAM sector.
Traditional platform vendors are coming under pressure from a new generation of cloud-based specialists that are changing the way that IAM services will be consumed in the future.
Andrew Kellett, Ovum’s Principal Analyst for IT Security Solutions and Author of the Report stated, The increasing use of Cloud-based services is driving the need for better and more interactive single sign-on (SSO) and federated identity management (FIM) facilities. For the foreseeable future, organisations will continue to make use of a mixed range of on-premise, hosted and cloud-based systems and services.
Mainstream IAM platform vendors make a strong case for using their facilities to maintain secure access when moving between on-premise systems and Cloud-based applications. Some are also reconfiguring their offerings to deliver IAM from the Cloud.
The Cloud remains a source of opportunity for the IAM sector. A new generation of cloud specialists is challenging established approaches to managing identity, and are positioning themselves as offering a more flexible, easier to deploy, and cost-effective approach to managing identity from the Cloud.
