…optimise your IT investments Nigel Stanley Practice Leader, Security Bloor Research Identity Management as a Service Peter Cooke Associate Analyst Bloor Research

telling the right story Confidential © Bloor Research 2010 Identity Management as a Service Scope of current offerings Capabilities and challenges Vendor overview Conclusions

telling the right story Confidential © Bloor Research 2010 Scope of Current Offerings Add-on to an existing identity management system to provide coverage for cloud applications Replacement for entire in-house identity management system for all applications Access management platform for web and cloud applications

telling the right story Confidential © Bloor Research 2010 Scope of Current Offerings Identity Management as a Service Identity Management for a Service

telling the right story Confidential © Bloor Research 2010 Identity Management as a Service Scope of current offerings Capabilities and challenges Vendor overview Conclusions

telling the right story Confidential © Bloor Research 2010 Capabilities and Challenges Identity management functionality Outsourcing

telling the right story Confidential © Bloor Research 2010 IdM functionality Cloud application coverage Compliance Provisioning / de-provisioning Workflows

telling the right story Confidential © Bloor Research 2010 IdM functionality Directory integration User self-service Strong authentication Single sign-on

telling the right story Confidential © Bloor Research 2010 Capabilities and Challenges Identity management functionality Outsourcing

telling the right story Confidential © Bloor Research 2010Outsourcing Security SLAs Availability Scalability

telling the right story Confidential © Bloor Research 2010Outsourcing Start-up time and costs Running costs Hosting options

telling the right story Confidential © Bloor Research 2010 Identity Management as a Service Scope of current offerings Capabilities and challenges Vendor overview Conclusions

telling the right story Confidential © Bloor Research 2010 Vendor Overview Seven companies surveyed Conformity, Inc. Exostar Fischer International Lighthouse Security Nordic Edge Simeio Solutions WSO2

telling the right story Confidential © Bloor Research 2010 Bullseye Scoring

telling the right story Confidential © Bloor Research 2010 Identity Management as a Service Scope of current offerings Challenges and capabilities Vendor overview Conclusions

telling the right story Confidential © Bloor Research 2010Conclusions Choose the service best for your business IdMaaS can bundle many services into one Cost saving is evident Services are selling Smaller companies not interested in security Standards are slow to be adopted SLAs are vital

telling the right story Confidential © Bloor Research 2010 Thank you Thank you Questions