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%
Synchronization of email 22.22%
For Authorization Systems, the processes used are as follows:
Centralized 62.5%
Web based 37.5%
On a rating scale of 5, the major drivers for implementing IDM, as per organizations are
summarized by their mean values:
1: Not Imp. 2: Slightly Imp. 3: Imp. 4: Very Imp. 5: Absolutely Imp.
User Friendliness 3.66
Enhanced Security 3.61
Lower Admin & Security Cost 2.61
Access to more Resources/Services 2.16
On a rating scale of 5, the mean value for the level of deployment and supporting IDM
systems comes out to be:
1: Easy 2: Avg. 3: Difficult 4: Very Difficult 5: Impossible
Level of deployment and support 2.5
On a rating scale of 5, the mean values for the experience of working with different IDM
components:
1: Poor 2: Below Avg. 3: Avg. 4: Above Avg. 5: Excellent
Experience of working with Directory Services 4.18
Experience of synch. of Data b/w systems 3.35
Experience of synch. of passwords b/w systems 3.76
Experience with Single Sign on 4.33
