Sponsor: IBM Tivoli
Featured Analyst Firm: Gartner, Inc.
Speakers: Earl Perkins, Craig Smelser
Type: Video (24 minutes)
Identity and Access Management Governance enables you to converge the investments you’ve made in your identity and access management infrastructure with your business lines of applications, so that you can look at them consistently and holistically, in order to manage enterprise risk.
Identity and Access Management Governance provides an end-to-end view of the individuals in your organization, as well as the roles and the responsibilities they have.
Identity and Access Management Governance provides the compliance and audit mechanisms to create transparency to your organization and your auditors, to ensure that the assets that are under their control are being managed judiciously and effectively.
Check out this new program and hear leading experts from featured analyst firm, Gartner, Inc., and opinion leaders from IBM, reveal the principal elements of Identity and Access Management (IAM) Governance and the best practices to help you be successful in your IAM governance deployment.
In this program you will…
- Discover the critical success factors your organization should consider as you pursue IAM governance
- Find out how your organization can keep up with the evolving identity and access management market expectations
- Learn about a strategic approach to IAM governance
- Hear about the IAM governance solution elements that can benefit your organization
To learn more about why IAM governance is a key requirement for effective IT governance, and to learn how IAM governance provides a bridge between IT and the business organization, watch this new program now.
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About Earl Perkins, Research VP, Gartner
Earl Perkins is a research vice president in the Security and Privacy team at Gartner. His focus areas include: 1) identity and access management (i.e., user provisioning, role life cycle management, role-based access and authorization management) and its market, services and processes; 2) enterprise application (e.g., SAP and Oracle) security and identity frameworks; 3) Web services, service-oriented architecture (SOA), and software as a service (SaaS) security and identity issues; and 4) secure development life cycles. Mr. Perkins has more than 28 years of information technology and security experience, including industry experience in education, energy and utility businesses in planning, architecting, designing, engineering, managing and operating local-area, wide-area and Internet-based networks, as well as developing and delivering applications for them. He has been recognized for achievements in designing, deploying and securing systems, applications, voice and data networks for three corporations (two U.S.-based and one international), managing IT restructurings in the utility and energy industries. Prior to joining Gartner, Mr. Perkins held director positions at Microsoft in market research and vice president/senior director positions in IT research firm Meta Group, where he was part of Security & Risk Strategies and Global Network Strategies practices, respectively. He also held IT management and technical roles for Entergy, an electric utility based in New Orleans, Louisiana, and senior manager positions at London Energy in London, England.
About Craig Smelser, VP, Product Development, Storage & Security Software Development
Craig Smelser has spent almost 30 years developing software operating systems, firmware and middleware. He has been with IBM since 1995, where he has held a variety of product management and development executive roles. Among some of them: Craig ran product management for Lotus, Rational and IBM Storage. In his current role as a Development Vice President in Tivoli, Craig is responsible for the definition, design and development of IBM's storage and security software portfolio. Craig holds a BS in Computer Science, BA in Math and MS in Software Engineering from Boston University and has held previous positions at NCR, Wang and DEC.
