ENTERPRISE IT
“ We ’ re now in a time where IT and security teams are dealing with the challenges of the Everywhere
Workplace ”
SRI MUKKAMALA SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT
SECURITY PRODUCTS , IVANTI
Management ( IAM ) is a big focus this year with the rise in a hybrid / distributed workforce . Jenn Markey , Product Marketing Director at Entrustremarked : “ This is making it the ideal time to examine the ‘ bubblegum and duct tape ’ that was needed by IT teams to keep their respective organisation ’ s functioning , and take stock of how to more robustly and securely manage their IT workforce going forward . This needs to be done before these temporary measures become permanent fixtures in the new working framework .”
When questioned on its IAM direction for 2021 , nearly half ( 47 %) of those interviewed by Omdia said they were looking to augment existing IAM implementations , and 42 % also said they would be focusing on migrating to the cloud .
Markey believes that “ without a centralised IAM solution to onboard and offboard users , IT teams are left having to manually manage parallel work streams and user access processes , adding cost , complexity , and risk ”. A core component for Entrust is ironically around zero trust , the model that recognises that trust is a vulnerability and that , as Markey puts it , Entrust will use identity orchestration to ensure that a " seamless and secure experience is achieved through the continual monitoring of user and device behavior .” Such orchestration provides a “ single pane view of protected resources , user identities ,
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