Cloud, Cost & Complexity: Challenging the Traditional Identity Model

New Survey of Enterprise IT Decision Makers Shows An Increasingly Complex Mix of Application Users and Top Challenges with Identity & Access Management

Symplified Identity Management Research: Key Findings

In the era of the extended enterprise, fewer boundaries exist thanks to continuous innovations in cloud and mobile technologies; business applications are now on premises, cloud – and SaaSbased; and users extend beyond onsite employees to include conractors, customers and partners..

Many large organizations are grappling with how to address these new challenges in identity and access management (IAM) with the legacy solutions they already have in place.

Because no single traditional IAM product met all of their needs, many enterprises have created, and now must manage, a patchwork of multiple solutions. Mobile identities and the growing number of new applications are common challenges.

Symplified Identity Management Research: Key Findings

50% of enterprises manage identities for at least one type of external user; 75%

manage mobile identities.

Security and total cost of ownership are top

concerns.

Symplified Identity Management Research: Key Findings

Using multiple tools to manage identities and

managing mobile identities are top

challenges.

Symplified Identity Management Research: Key Findings

Regulatory compliance is among the top 3 IAM

goals for enterprises.

Symplified Identity Management Research: Key Findings

About The Research

Research methodology: Symplified commissioned a survey conducted October 12-13, 2013 among 63 IT decision makers at companies with 3,000 or more employees. Participants completed an online survey designed by Lawless Research LLC and programmed via Qualtrics, Inc. The margin of error is +/- 12 percentage points at the 95 percent level of confidence.

About Symplified

Symplified was founded on the principle that identity is central to enterprise security. Today the company delivers an identity management services platform that manages user identities and access across any device or application, located on premises or in the cloud, anywhere in the world. Symplified is headquartered in Boulder, Colorado. Learn more at www.symplified.com.