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Many organizations are launching identity management projects, and avoiding common pitfalls means taking certain steps up front before deployment begins.
Identity management projects are on the menu for many businesses, and like all IT projects, planning is the key.
Among the most commonly cited challenges is correctly-sizing the project and not biting off more than you can chew, experts told eWEEK. To avoid that, step one involves doing a little homework.
“To prepare for identity management, you must first agree on what it is to you,” Gartner analyst Earl Perkins said. “There is a discovery phase where you identify not only the definition of identity management in general, but you compare it with what your specific needs are. You will also need during such a discovery find out what “assets” you have to address it. Many clients discover to their surprise they already have automation components of IAM (identity and access management), they just don’t have it deployed as a coherent, corporate or agency-wide solution.”
“Assets also mean things like the key stakeholders, key skill sets required, as well as the technologies you possess,” Perkins said. “Then it’s a matter of matching requirement to existing asset to determine gaps.”
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