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Identity management: the challenge of our time

02 August 2018

If you have a hammer, every problem looks like a nail. Talk to an anti-virus vendor and they’ll probably tell you that malware is the biggest challenge of our time. Chat to someone in the banking and financial services space and they’ll lament about phishing. For Dragan Petkovic, security product leader for ECEMEA at Oracle, identity management is just one element of an increasingly complex security landscape that must be tightly integrated with other functions. Identity management should not be just another silo; it should work in unison with other security solutions, he points out.

Identity management has become the final frontier for security, especially as crime threatens both physical and digital security, and the number of access points, systems and applications needing to be secured increases, notes Marius Coetzee, CEO of Ideco. Identity is the basis of almost all security, adds Maeson Maherry, chief solutions officer, LAWtrust, a division of Etion. It is an important foundational element for accountability in business, as well as privacy. And there’s no denying that identity is becoming more complicated. Previously related only to humans, identity has now expanded to include entities, devices and machines. This poses a number of challenges that businesses have to address, in that you now need to identify every machine and device – from physical, to virtual and containerised – so that only authorised machines securely work on your network, Maherry continues.

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