Business Layers specializes in provisioning software, which is used to manage user accounts on computer networks. BMC Software plans to extend its identity management software with better management tools.
Originally the idea behind implementing the SiteMinder technology from Netegrity, now part of CA, was to streamline identity management internally and cut costs associated with resetting passwords and provisioning users, said Alec Cartwright, lead...
In most cases, he says, companies can build on their existing directories and create a metadirectory to link them together but this has to be combined with a proper analysis of business processes. An effective identity and access management system...
The survey, commissioned by BT, also found that companies are completing existing projects related to user account provisioning and harder to crack passwords. A survey of companies in eight European countries and the US by Forrester Consulting...
Provisioning and user management are central to identity management. The building blocks are authentication, authorisation, provisioning, user management, audit and federation. Because deploying identity management requires organisations to map...
According to Kellet, the particular problems associated with identity management are provisioning and deprovisioning of user identities, access control, and identity federation. Identity management remains a problem for both private and public...
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