New Survey From eema, Everett And KPMG To Study The Effect Of The Economic Climate On Identity & Access Management
Findings to be exclusively revealed at ISSE 2009, 6th – 8th October, The Hague, The Netherlands
Information Security Solutions Europe (ISSE), Europe’s largest independent IT security and identity conference, today announced that the results of the first 2009 European Identity & Access Management (IAM) Survey will be announced at the opening plenary on 6th October. Organised and conducted by ICT security provider Everett and auditor KPMG, in partnership with the independent European e-Identity and security association, eema, the survey of organisations’ IAM user habits aims to analyse the impact of the current worldwide recession on organisations’ current and future IAM plans.
IAM concerns the secure identification and authorisation of individuals who require access to a network, series of networks or computer system and the control of permissions determining which resources these individuals can access and how. The 2009 IAM Survey asked business and IT professionals during July and August how proposed IAM plans have advanced and whether the economic crisis has affected business cases. CTO of Everett, Peter Valkenburg and Associate Partner at KPMG, John Hermans, will lead the keynote by looking at case studies highlighted by the survey, including the successes and failures of current IAM practices already in place.
According to Hermans, IAM is here to stay and its importance is ever increasing, “It is imperative for business and IT managers to understand ways of defining and refining their IAM strategy and understand that it is not just about technology. By analysing the results of the survey we will be able to identify current trends and contributing factors and learn how organisations are dealing with IAM, despite the growing constraints of the current economic crisis.”
Executive Director of eema, Roger Dean, adds, “Indubitably, the worldwide recession has increased the need for companies to be more efficient and frugal with budgets, in areas where previously there has been less control. Priorities need adjusting without losing out on IAM initiatives and project effectiveness.”
He continues, “However, the areas of IAM within the workplace that have a need for improvement are endless. With a clear lack of authorisation, solutions and in some cases funding, intellectual property is not being protected as it should be. Many organisations have projects underway to improve provisioning and user authentication and authorisation management but whether the plans put in place are effective, economical and effective still needs to be addressed.”
ISSE 2009 is sponsored by AEP Networks, Barracuda Networks, BlackBerry, CoreStreet. EDR Europe, DAP Technologies, DigiNotar, Everett, Grabowsky Identity Architects, Infraccent, Microsoft, Nexus Technology, Novell, PGP Corporation, SecurIT, Sharp Electronics, Siemens, Tools4ever and Nordic Edge.
ISSE 2009 takes place 6th – 8th October at the Steigenberger Kurhaus Hotel in The Hague, The Netherlands. Conference fees are charged at €975 for eema/TeleTrusT members and €1,249 for non-members, including a place at the influential networking reception on the second night of the event. Early Bird booking fees are also available. Members of the press are invited free of charge. For further details regarding ISSE 2009, including the full conference programme and to register please visit www.isse.eu.com; Tel: +44 (0)1962 888 100 or Email: eempr@mccint.com
About eema – www.eema.org
For 22 years, eema has been Europe’s leading independent, non-profit e-Identity & Security association, working with its European members, governmental bodies, standards organisations and interoperability initiatives throughout Europe to further e-Business and legislation.
eema’s remit is to educate and inform over 1,500 Member contacts on the latest developments and technologies, at the same time enabling Members of the association to compare views and ideas. The work produced by the association with its Members (projects, papers, seminars, tutorials and reports etc) is funded by both membership subscriptions and revenue generated through fee-paying events. All of the information generated by eema and its members is available to other members free of charge.
Examples of recent eema events include: Using RFID in Identity & Access Management, Brussels; Role Life Cycle Management and IAM, Gent; The European e-ID interoperability conference (featuring STORK, PEPPOL & epSOS), Brussels; The use of public identifiers in the private sector, Utrecht; The European e-Identity Management Conference (featuring STORK), London; Enterprise Data Protection - Is IAM enough to meet Compliance Goals?, London; ISSE (Information Security Solutions Europe), The Hague and Identity in the Cloud – workshop and conference, Munich.
eema and its members are also involved in many European funded projects including STORK, ICEcom and ETICA .
Any organisation involved in e-Identity or Security (usually of a global or European nature) can become a Member of eema, and any employee of that organisation is then able to participate in eema activities. Examples of organisations taking advantage of eema membership are Volvo, Hoffman la Roche, KPMG, Deloitte, ING, Novartis, Metropolitan Police, TOTAL, PGP, McAfee, Adobe, Magyar Telecom Rt, National Communications Authority, Hungary, Microsoft, HP, and the Norwegian Government Administration Services to name but a few.
Visit www.eema.org for more information or contact the association on +44 1386 793028 or at info@eema.org
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About TeleTrusT Deutschland e.V.
TeleTrusT was founded in 1989 as a non profit making association to promote the trustworthiness of information and communication technology in an open systems environment.
Accordant to the demands of the every day practice TeleTrusT supports the area wide implementation of data encryption as well as Identification, Authentification and Signature
(I-A-S) in eBusiness applications within industry and administration. In this connection the conformity of standards plays a decisive role as a foundation for interoperable Hard- and Software as well as for services.
Together with institutions from other countries TeleTrusT works on harmonising aims and standards within the European Union. Of particular concern is a technical and organisational security that is appropriate for the concrete application context.
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About ENISA
ENISA is mandated to assist the European Union and its Member States in ensuring the higher levels of network and information security.The Agency's tasks are focused on collecting and analysing data on security incidents and emerging risks, establishing public/private partnerships with industry, promoting risk assessment methods and best practices and tracking the development of standards for products and services in the Network and Information Society.
ENISA - defending the future
Every day people experience the Information Society. Interconnected networks are touching our everyday lives, at home and at work. It is therefore vital that e.g. computers, mobile phones, banking, high-tech cars and the Internet are functioning, as they constitute the "Digital Economy." That is why ENISA is working with Network and Information Security for the EU and the Member States.
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