
By Jackson Shaw
The identity management market has grown to $13 billion and counting. While intuition would tell you enterprises have identity under control, that is far from reality.
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Current events, such as the global pandemic and ‘The Great Resignation,’ which have accelerated cloud adoption, remote working environments, and the number of business applications and systems in use has complicated matters.
As a result, new solutions and features to address identity challenges have emerged. In a sense, this is a positive trend: change makers are innovating and trying to stay ahead of imminent threats.
On the other hand, there’s a good deal of snake oil on the market, making it hard for organizations to realize the value of their tech investments. Last, and perhaps most significant, many solutions don’t work together harmoniously, making it hard for employees to get work done.
When you consider these points, it’s understandable why businesses end up with too many solutions to effectively manage, or simply default to manual, inefficient processes to address identity- and security-related tasks. But for progress to happen, we must first get to the root of why this is happening.