The digital identity or profile of an employee or other user has become the starting point for building effective cyber security processes. Too often these digital identities are poorly managed or exist in many different forms. The inability to effectively manage digital identities not only raises costs, but it leaves the organisation on the wrong side of many compliance directives and security policies.
In addition, for many organisations the cost and complexity of running on-premise identity management systems is more than they’d like to take on. This is most common in small to mid-size firms that have IT staffs that are substantially over-extended, based on the increased need for IT solutions and the relatively small staff size. The result is that many of these organisations are looking to the cloud for the management and daily administration of an identity management solution.
