Identity Management Overview

Rising data breach incidents and identity theft cases, expanding global regulations, increased connectivity between multitude of devices and the vast amount of available raw data about consumer demographics, preferences, transactions, and social media activities also known as Big Data have forced companies to further embrace and redefine the growing field of identity management.

Organizations deploy various identity and access management processes and resources to identify and track digital identities, assign and streamline access, monitor activities, control the exchange of data, maintain separation of duties, and provide an end-to-end audit capability. As such, identity management is one of the most important components of an organization's security, fraud management, connectivity, and compliance infrastructure to ensure information assets are accessible only to authorized entities, transactions are executed by legitimate entities, and, the company is able to log and analyze account activities.