Business Insights

Identity and access management has evolved from the needs of large organizations and international operating enterprises. Automated user and entitlement management enabled the IT organizations to reduce costs and increase efficiency.

Today, legal and regulatory compliance dominates the deployment of identity and access management solutions. The level of control therefore follows the risk exposure and the transparent risk taking of the business owners. Identity and access governance with comprehensive analysis and reporting functionalities ensure transparency of rights, roles and entitlements.

Customers demand modular and service-oriented offerings managing identity and access for on-premise environments and cloud infrastructures.

Enterprise customers and service providers benefit from perimeter-less security services like cloud SSO and entitlement services for mixed environments (on-premise, private, public and hybrid cloud). This key note will present a look on existing and future scenarios.

The concepts of trust and security are deeply embedded in our society and are therefore strongly affected by the societal transformation caused by the digitization. Societal and technical change is strongly influenced by the growing complexity of society related to the emergence of easy worldwide communication, the Web and mass data collection. In this paper I discuss security and trust as fundamental drivers for self-organizing communities in our society. I highlight the concepts of trustworthy technology and trust in the societal context, as well as the difference between accepting technology and trusting technology. An important observation is that a complex system cannot be fully understood through reductionism. The discussion leads to some cautious conclusions on future actions.