Managing the sprawl of SaaS, cloud and mobile
August 20, 2013
Grazed from Diginomica. Author: Phil Wainewright.
Business users love the convenience of being able to sign up for new applications on-demand and use them on any device, any time, any place. IT and security managers are less enamored. A proliferation of Web apps, a boom in mobile working and the persistence of unsafe browsing habits are causing more and more headaches for those entrusted with safeguarding enterprise data. When security breaches occur, it’s IT that carries the can. No wonder they want to get more control and oversight of what users are up to.
During July and August I’ve posted a total of six articles on the topic of identity and access management — three vendor interviews and three customer case studies. Taken together, they provide a useful snapshot of enterprise adoption of these technologies to help manage cloud and mobile apps, along with insight into their future evolution…
One app at a time
Although vendors like to show off the ease with which a portfolio of apps can be plugged into their access management platform using ready-made connectors, the reality on the ground is that it’s never as easy as that. In each of the three case studies — all of them introduced by vendors — it was very much a case of adding one application at a time. At US-based agribusiness Wilbur-Ellis, the pace of its three-month long implementation was governed by technology issues, such as getting SAML integration working well with one of its cloud applications…
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