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IAM as GRC ASAP

For years the purview of the IT department, IAM--or identity access management--is stepping out into business functions to play a key role in both compliance and risk management strategies

By Beth Karlin | Updated on February 01, 2008

Not too long ago, identity access management (IAM) hardly warranted a full-time manager. Mostly, these responsibilities were tacked onto other IT employees’ duties. But burgeoning demand for this technology is leading to a convergence of business and IT functions and prompting companies like forest products giant Weyerhaeuser Co. to place ads for full-time IAM technologists. “Convergence is the most significant thing happening in identity management,” says Jonathan Penn, vice president and research director at Forrester Research. “Integration and convergence are upfront costs that pay for themselves over time through lower operational costs and better overall security.”

IAM began life as an IT security framework to identify individuals within an organization who required access to data, and the access management tool acted as a gatekeeper. Now, however, demand is being driven by business functions, including Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) regulations and the pressure to overlay governance, risk and compliance (GRC) tools on enterprise resource planning systems, vendors say. IAM “is becoming a cornerstone of an enterprise compliance effort,” says Venkat Raghavan, director of strategy for IBM Corp.’s Tivoli storage and security software products. “This is a core process that needs to be applied across a system in many applications.”

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