Peter Jopling, head of IBM's Tivoli Identity Manager software, says: "IDM and governance go hand in hand. John Hughes, an identity management specialist at PA Consulting, a leading consultancy working with both public sector and private companies...
The first considers IT governance to comprise the tasks of managing IT plans and resources in activities such as portfolio management, service management, architecture control and so on. Although software vendors and consultancies offer a variety...
The UK IT industry has renewed attempts to tackle a poor track record on government IT projects by beefing up its code of practice with new compliance guidelines that allow customers to assess vendors' performance.
Today, it is possible to choose from a variety of solutions that claim to offer end-to-end management (Computer Associates, IBM/Tivoli) or vital, extensible partial solutions to the end-to-end management problem (BMC, HP, and a host of others).
Once the information has been classified, the next step is to enforce the scheme and the best way to do this electronically is through identity management. Role-based access control (RBAC) software packages help companies automate access control...
Otherwise, companies will spend 10 times more on IT solutions for compliance than those taking sustainable approach, it said. Corporate governance and compliance laws are driving up information technology spending by businesses, Gartner reported in...