{"id":28,"date":"2003-11-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-11-23T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/2003\/11\/23\/the-role-of-identity-management-in-information-security\/"},"modified":"2021-12-30T11:36:20","modified_gmt":"2021-12-30T11:36:20","slug":"the-role-of-identity-management-in-information-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/2003\/11\/23\/the-role-of-identity-management-in-information-security\/","title":{"rendered":"The Role of Identity Management in Information Security"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Identity management and information security are both current major concerns for enterprises.  Some vendors claim to address both of these areas, but often there is confusion and even a vague uneasiness among some IT planners about the approach to both of these concerns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defining accurately what identity management and information security really are for the enterprise and its IT organization &#8211; and then correlating those explicit functional definitions &#8211; can provide a starting point for initial planning decisions and approaches to both identity management and information security, and ensure efficient use of IT resources.<\/p>\n<p>META Trend: The strategic approach to information security will transform from a monolithic set of controls to an evolving program of principles, behaviors, and solutions (2003-05).<\/p>\n<p>The pervasive nature of information security will result in establishment of strategic programs &#8211; 40% of Global 2000 organizations in 2003, rising to 80% by 2006\/07.<\/p>\n<p>These will be managed via dedicated program offices and budgets, and led by a chief security officer or equivalent.<\/p>\n<p>Proper planning for identity management in the context of information security can result from defining identity, identity management, and information security from a functional business and an IT organization perspective and from determining the relationships that exist in those definitions.<\/p>\n<p>More info: [url=http:\/\/techupdate.zdnet.com\/techupdate\/stories\/main\/Identity_Management_Information_Security_Part_1.html?tag=tu.scblog.6673]http:\/\/techupdate.zdnet.com\/techupdate\/stories\/main\/Identity_Management_Information_Security_Part_1.html?tag=tu.scblog.6673[\/url]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2515,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions\/2515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}