Findings of the research
The major findings can be summarized as follows:
? 61.5% of organizations surveyed have an Identity Management infrastructure in place. An Identity Management infrastructure has been categorized as having implemented at least three components: Directory Services, Authentication and Authorization process.
? Among the components of IDM, the percentage applications is as follows:
Directory Services 69.2%
Authentication Policy 92.3%
Authorization Policy 73%
Single Sign on 34.6%
? Among firms that have deployed Directory Services, the functions of Directory Services being implemented as a percentage of the organizations:
White Pages 44.44%
IT Provisioning 66.66%
Employee Comm. / Decomm 61.11%
Desktop & Device Mgmt. 83.33%
Directory enabled N/w / QOS 94.44%
Authorization & Access 66.66%
Database Inf. Aggregation 61.11%
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