Indentity management, as pushed by Oblix, aims to streamline the process of managing indentities within organizations, for example, making sure that when an employee leaves a company, their priveleges on all the company’s IT systems are terminated.
The vendor is gearing up for the launch of product updates over the coming month, which will push it further into the market for federated identity management, ie expanding identity management beyond individual companies, so that workers from separate companies can access one anothers’ networks where appropriate.
Talking to ComputerWire recently, Oblix CEO Gordon Eubanks acknowledged that so far, identity management was a tool for the biggest companies. However, he said, smaller companies will inevitably be drawn in as ecosystems develop between multiple companies who may want to identify one each other’s workers.
Not adopting identity management would not be an option for smaller firms, as their bigger customers or partners adopt the technology, Eubanks said. I think we’re moving towards a time when not being integrated into the business systems of a customer is going to be a real negative.
Oblix is looking at developing technology to bring smaller firms into such ecosystems said Eubanks. Oblix would continue to concentrate its own efforts on the world’s 2000 biggest firms, he said. However, he added, the company was looking at partners it could work with to push its technology to the next 10,000 companies.
Eubanks also insisted there was little worry of smaller firms being locked out of federated security systems by opting for the wrong software, as the industry would be based on SAML links.
Source: ComputerWire
