Fujitsu Services

ON THE SPOT IAM

By Ugan Naidoo, Managing Consultant at Fujitsu Services SA

Johannesburg, October 28, 2008 — In this month’s on the spot feature, we asked whether Identity and Access Management (IAM) is dead in the water or taking off?

IAM deployments in large heterogenous environments are complex and would be dead in the water for organisations that will believe IAM is about implementing technologies to counter poor organisation and process controls. IAM brings about organisational and process changes that have far-reaching consequences in the extended enterprise. Due consideration must be given prior to deploying any solution. IAM failures have been tipping the scale over the past few years, but with the maturity of the system integrators and IAM software vendors in this area, success rates are sure to pick up.

Organisations that fall into the trap of rushing to deploy solutions before understanding what business value is to be accrued, usually find themselves spending a fortune, with no way of justifying the spend once the kit is implemented.