Gartner's four predictions for Identity and Access Management
- Hosted IAM and IAM as a service will account for twenty per cent of IAM revenue by 2011
- Twenty per cent of smart-card authentication projects will be abandoned and thirty per cent scaled back in favour of lower-cost, lower-assurance authentication methods.
(Key comment: "Gartner recommends that organizations with a free choice of authentication methods for local access should take a scenario-based approach to selecting new authentication methods, based on risk, end-user needs and total cost of ownership (TCO). ") - Thirty per cent of large corporate networks will become ‘identity aware' by controlling access to some resources via user-based policies by 2011
- Approximately fifteen per cent of global organizations storing or processing sensitive customer data will use out-of-band OOB authentication for high-risk transactions by 2010.
(Key quote: "Organizations that need to safeguard customer accounts should implement a three-pronged security strategy that includes risk-appropriate user authentication, fraud detection, and transaction verification for high-risk transactions." - Ant Allan, VP, Research at Gartner)