When it comes to the subject of information security, identity management is definitely the hot topic of the moment. Identity management is vital to protect information assets as well as to meet the relevant regulatory compliance or privacy obligations. And whilst regulatory compliance and privacy obligations are one thing, the simple reason identity management is gaining attention and growing so fast is because the technology helps control who has access to what. Organisations with effective identity management have good security infrastructure, and are therefore able to move faster than their competitors.

Any user of an IT system needs to be identified and security must be provided at multiple levels in many different ways. Identity management, or IDM, provides the essential management of these identities, while a wide range of security mechanisms and techniques are used throughout the architecture, design and implementation of any system – not to mention its operation and maintenance.

Object Consulting has broad experience in providing security at a technical level, but also understands that security is a much broader issue. As such, Object is able to take a pragmatic view of how to define what level of security is needed, and advise organisations on how best to provide security within the bounds of acceptable user inconvenience.

Object's Identity Management/Security Practice is dedicated to keeping Object at the forefront of new identity management and security technologies. Object has been a Sun Microsystems Identity Management Elite Partner since 2006, an award that recognises that Object has the skills and knowledge necessary to deliver state of the art identity management and security solutions to customers based on Sun technologies.

For further information on Object's Security/Identity Management services please contact us.