Cloud Computing: The Fuzzy Future Of Identity Management
December 11, 2013
Grazed from InformationWeek. Author: Grant Moerschel.
The traditional worker bee comes into the office, logs in to a dedicated computer via Microsoft Active Directory credentials, and gets access to local applications and data shares needed to conduct daily activities. Simple, familiar, controlled — and totally out of date for companies dealing with mobile devices, cloud computing, BYOD, and the blurring line between work and home, business and personal.
As the use of mobile and cloud computing booms, we’re outgrowing our trusty old technology for identity and access management. But our future vision — to know a person’s identity across all the multiple devices, cloud services, and roles he has — isn’t possible with today’s still-emerging technology. This causes lots of confusion as vendors vie to be the next great thing and IT tries to determine where to place bets…
As emerging cloud and mobile technologies settle out over the next few years, we in IT must maintain control by buying into transitional technologies, and also staking out and enforcing sometimes-unpopular policies. Employees don’t like passcodes on phones, or giving up their personal Dropbox storage for an enterprise option, or feeling like their company might erase personal information from a device, but adopting new technology comes at a cost. Balancing the benefits with the costs is the art of information technology…
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