Identity and access management is still a booming market – but are we doing it right?

Identity management has evolved significantly in the last couple of decades. When it started, it consisted mainly of shunting lists of usernames and passwords between isolated systems. Then directories came along, and enabled organizations to share them across different applications. Those directories began documenting privileges, so that different members could have access to different sets of applications. They also started adding authentication data via digital certificates.

Since then, the product category has become a lot more complex, layering additional functions such as access governance, which provides compliance reporting on who is accessing what, and helps companies to ‘mine’ data about which roles its employees have. Privileged account management helps companies to keep a close eye on how accounts with lots of access are being used.

A broken model

But some experts are unhappy about how identity management has evolved. Paul Simmonds, CEO of the Sponsor: Microsoft
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