Monday, November 10, 2008

Gartner IAM 2008 Keynote

Earl Perkins RVP IAM@Gartner


  • IAM is a subset of IT Governance (should we have an identity arm of IT Governance or should IAM run Governance meeting of its own)
  • Access in IAM is risk mitigation
  • IAM-GRCM - controlling activities and compliance in enterprise apps
  • GRCM is required to deliver "best practices"
  • GRCM is heterogeneous and complex, requiring heterogeneous IAM infrastructure
  • Addressing GRCM is IAM's showing "maturity" and increase success and quality
  • How does IAM cut costs? (this is straightforward)
  • trends in IAM GRCM
  • IT Austerity Programs - what are the assets in the organization (identity, entitlement, roles)
  • Why IAM Suite?
  • Cost savings, GRCM with risk based decisions, best in class GRCM (dont expect just one comprehensive IT Tool for it)
  • Deliver transparency of information while establishing "principles of privilege" to reduce litigation concerns and overall risk
  • the biggest challenge of IAM is figuring out what access to give people
  • IAM Maturity
  • Infrastructure procedures ---> business processes
  • Security basic -------> managing risk
  • Coarse grained access ------> fine grained access

Seven Ps of GRCM

  1. Principles
  2. Policies
  3. Practices
  4. Processes
  5. People
  6. Products
  7. Production


  • IAM timeline
  • 2008 IAM to IT Services
  • 2012 Business Enablement
  • 2016 Profitability
  • GRCM timeline
  • Today - compliance
  • 2008 Risk Management
  • 2012 - Profitability
  • Multi-regulatory, Cross enterprise - business stakeholders should get into compliance, reports, audits, defining access


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