Identity Management Market Trends

Identity management is an unavoidable part of doing business in an age that is both digital and highly regulated. Regulatory and compliance rulings in both the public and private sectors, to say nothing of normal risk management practices, are driving companies to devote extra diligence to monitoring, measuring, auditing, and controlling the ways in which employees (and even applications) interface with electronic enterprise systems. Accordingly, identity management has emerged as a central component of access management and security strategies. This report explains the salient technological and business features of identity management, examines the vendor landscape, and provides decision support for enterprises looking to initiate or expand an identity management investment.