Mapping the Identity Management Landscape: 29 Providers
October 13, 2011
I’m just beginning to dive into a new research area around Identity and Access Management (IAM) in the enterprise, and am brushing up on the main challenges, opportunities and contenders in the space.The premise around IAM seems simple enough – make sure people are who they say they are, and give them access to the appropriate data and services they need.This area is particularly interesting to me because I see the future of work and collaboration generally becoming a more non-hierarchical, self-organizing and fluid thing, where ad-hoc relationships are formed for temporary projects and then dissolved. Individuals will need to quickly be authenticated, assigned roles, given access to sensitive information, monitored, and then deprovisioned. Ideally, the majority of this process would be automated.For the individual in this scenario, who would most likely be logging in to a multitude of web-based applications and accounts across a range of personal devices, a federated identity solution would be in order.And all of this would also require security, compliance and trust solutions for the cloud, standards such as SAML and OAuth to accelerate integration, as well as standards for auditing and reporting.
These seem to essentially be the main challenges being faced now in the enterprise, so I’m curious to find out how providers stack up.
I see the next phase of the web being dependent upon our ability to not only authenticate and authorize identities, but to contextualize them with supplemental information around trust, reputation, influence and endorsement – a layer of granularity that has yet to be fully realized yet.
Below is a first pass at the folks currently occupying the identity management landscape. Let me know if I’ve missed any and who we should be watching next. We’ll be conducting briefings with those solutions that can address both the enterprise and consumer requirements.
If you are interested in briefing Constellation, please:
- Let us know a bit about you and your company
- Think about what you want to cover: product update, organizational update, competitive landscape, wins/losses, case studies, partnerships, news, trends, etc.
- Submit your presentation the day before in powerpoint. I take notes in these things so please don’t send a pdf
- Think about whether or not a demo make sense
- Include a web/phone conferencing link and dial in number.
- Be prepared for tough questions
2. Avatier
3. Aveksa
4. BMC (SailPoint)
6. Cisco
7. Courion
8. Cyber-Ark
9. Entrust
10. Evidian
11. Fox Technologies
12. FuGen Solutions
13. Hitachi ID
14. IBM
15. Imprivata
16. IronStratus
17. Microsoft
18. Novell
19. Okta
20. Oracle
21. OneLogin
22. Ping Identity
23. ProtectNetwork
24. SafeNet
25. SAP
26. Siemens
27. Symantec
28. Symplified
28. RSA Security
29. VMware
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I love your maps, lists.
Quick comments, ActivIdentity is really now HID Global (of ASSA Abloy), where would you put Covisint, how about identity as a service as opposed to identity management?
thanks for suggestion about identity as a service. am curious too see how this will evolve for C2B.
I would suggest two organizations
The OpenID Foundation http://www.openid.net
The Open Identity Exchange http://www.openidentityexchange.org
don thibeau
Missing
OMADA : federation/cloud idm
Centrify : unix/AD identity consolidation
Liberman : Privleged id management
CionSystem : similar to centrify
Beyond Trust : With strong Unix Root access control, similar to centrify with the Likewise technology.
eDMZ : console proxy access control to terminal based system.
RadiantLogic : virtual directory
Doesn’t look like you are including the strong authentication players
a. PassWindow : card based authentication
b. Authentify
c. LexusNexus : knowledge based authentication
there are quite a few more.. but really depend on your angle/scope of research.
thanks for all the resources
I have a pretty long list of identity providers – both software and services available here:
http://www.360tek.com/identity_links.php
…you may find some companies you haven’t seen before.
wow! great list of resources, thanks!
any thoughts on Identity proofing? what vendors ?