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2. What is Identity & Access
Management?
● Management that automatizes processes to
assign the right people in an enterprise the
appropriate access to technology resources
● Goal: increasing security and productivity,
decreasing costs, downtime and repetitive
tasks

4. 4 major categories of IAM
components
● Authentication: Provides sufficient credentials to users to gain
access to an application system or a particular resource from clients
●
Authorization: The module that determines whether a user is
permitted to access a particular resource.
●
User management: The module that defines the set of administrative
functions such as identity creation, propagation, and maintenance of
user identity and privileges.
●
Central User Repository: Stores and delivers identity information to
other services, and provides service to verify credentials submitted
from clients

5. 100% Open source solution

6. IdM Market Overview

7. Sun
IBM
Oracle
2007
Novell
Courion
CA
HPSiemens
Golden era of IDM

8. Sun
IBM
Oracle
2012
NetIQ
(Novell)
CourionCA
HP
Atos
(Siemens)
Microsoft
Hitachi
R.I.P
S.O.S.
Quest
SAP SailPoint
Post-crisis consolidation
Dell
Fisher
Evidian
Avatier
Illex
Omada

9. Sun
IBM
Oracle
Reality
NetIQ
(Novell)
CourionCA
HP
Atos
(Siemens)
Microsoft
Hitachi
R.I.P
S.O.S.
Quest
SAP SailPoint
Dell
Fisher International
Evidian
Avatier
Illex
Omada
MS only
Zombie
$$$
expensive
$$$$$$
very
expensive
$$$
expensive
$$$
expensive
$$$$$
$$$$$
insanely
expensive
exotic
exotic

10. Commercial IDM
● Sun Identity Manager (Oracle Waveset)
– Popular
– Acceptable quality
– R.I.P
● Oracle Identity Manager (OIM)
– Strong database orientation
– Very difficult to deploy
– Very few real references
– EXPENSIVE

11. Commercial IDM Summary
● Famous, good marketing
– Sales networks, magic quadrants
● Vendor lock-in
● Expensive, very expensive
● High initial investment (licensing)
– Almost impossible to deploy in small steps
● Nightmare to deploy
– Difficult to customize
– (Very) expensive consultants
– Problematic support Partners suffer
all the work, no profit

12. Open Source IDM
http://compare.evolveum.com

13. If you have any questions,
please feel free to ask

14. Thank you for your attention