Converged Identity and Access Management — The Future of Identity
In the recent Market Guide for Identity Governance and Administration, Gartner recommended, “Ensure you have a long-term strategy for the future of IAM including IGA — such that you are able to evaluate and take advantage of SaaS-based converged IAM at an appropriate time for your organization.”
Converged IAM can be defined as an IAM solution that brings all the different dimensions of identity and access management into a single platform. Access Management, Identity Governance and Administration, Privileged Access Management, and in some cases even CIAM, all converging in a single solution and touted to be the future of enterprise security infrastructure.
Most of the leading players in the IAM industry have been strong in only one dimension of IAM and customers always had to purchase an Access Management solution from one vendor, and an IGA solution from another, maybe an add on PAM too. What if there was a need for risk analytics? Maybe another set of solutions.
This fragmented approach left customers with large bills, long implementation cycles, and complicated vendor management. There was no common ground to manage the data of identities from these various solutions. More so, this collection of solutions was only affordable by the larger enterprises, leaving the small and medium-sized businesses to grapple for a solution.
The solution to this predicament is Converged IAM — An IAM solution that is equipped with the functionalities that can enable organizations to be secure and productive without exhausting their resources in managing the solution itself.
These solutions make much more sense in terms of productivity as well. With this, organizations just have to use a single dashboard for AM, IGA, PAM, Analytics, and more. These platforms also pave the way to obtain data from various functionalities for better risk prediction. True converged IAM solutions are cost-effective, efficient, and much easier to sustain, along with the freedom to scale and without the hassles of multiple vendors.
Converged IAM is indeed the future of IAM. It’s only a matter of realizing this importance and educating stakeholders to ensure organizations are better equipped to handle today’s sophisticated threat landscape. The Identity and Access Management solution from Ilantus can help organizations obtain the converged approach to IAM.
