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By Warwick Ashford

IAM: Globalization & Large-Scale Enterprise

Identity and Access Management (IAM) has never been more important or challenging in the face of a rapidly changing business, regulatory and IT environment. This is especially true for multinational companies that must comply with an ever-increasing number of security and privacy regulations. Service Layers delivers a managed IAM service using a scalable, customizable, component-based platform with a service-oriented architecture to support multi-instance deployments to meet the key IAM challenges facing global enterprises.
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Content of Figures

  1. Figure 1 IAM Deployment Model Matrix
  2. Figure 2 Building blocks of Service Layers (Source: Service Layers)

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1 Introduction

In the digital era, the most significant trend is towards the provision and consumption of all IT as cloud-based services, including Identity and Acce ...

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2 Highlights

  • IAM is particularly challenging for global organizations in a rapidly changing business, IT and regulatory environment
  • Delivering IAM services usi ...
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3 IAM Challenges for Global Companies

Managing identities and access entitlements is becoming increasingly challenging in a rapidly changing business, regulatory and IT environment, but th ...

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4 Shift to as-a-service model

Digital Transformation is changing IT in businesses by driving the move towards the as-a-service model, where everything can be provided and consumed ...

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5 Advantages of Identity as a Service (IDaaS)

IDaaS solutions offer several key benefits that could help multinational organizations to tackle the challenge of running a global IAM

Since first a ...

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6 Service Layers: Delivering an IAM Managed Service with Global Support

Service Layers delivers a comprehensive managed IAM solution, based on best-of-breed IAM products and modern architectures.

Service Layers, a subsid ...

From an architectural perspective, Service Layers builds upon state-of-the-art concepts, which is the foundation of a flexible and future-proof servic ...

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7 Recommendations

Success in providing an IAM service in a constantly changing IT, business and regulatory environment, particularly for multinational companies, lies i ...

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8 Related Research

Leadership Compass: Identity as a Service (IDaaS) - IGA - 80051
Advisory Note: Future of Identity Management - 71303
Buyer’s Guide: Consumer Identity and Access Management Solution – 80111
Architecture Blueprint: Hybrid Cloud Security – 72552
Advisory Note: Cloud Services and Security - 72561

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