Oracle Magazine, July/August 2018
INTERVIEW ORACLE MAGAZINE JULY AUGUST 2018 23 At some point the keycard readers on your data center doors may have been part of your companys perimeter data security In todays cloud or multicloud enterprise wheres the new perimeter And more importantly how will you defend it Oracle Magazine sat down with Eric Olden senior vice president and general manager at Oracle to talk about todays enterprise identity management challenges the clouds effect on that conversation whats needed when delivering an enterprise identity management service and more Oracle Magazine Identity management is about security of course but its also about enabling access across platforms and applications What are todays big enterprise identity management challenges and opportunities Olden Enterprise identity management is responding to four big drivers today The first is the need to deliver a seamless experience for users whether these are customers or employees or partners The goal is to give an experience thats really simple and easy but at the same time under secure control Enterprise identity management needs to manage the risk and provide the control The second enterprise identity management driver is handling the change that has been coming with the evolution of the cloud and there are a lot of organizations today that are at very different points in their cloud journey Some are very aggressively moving everything to the cloud and describe themselves as cloud first and others are for many reasons taking their time moving to the cloud And youve got everything in between Organizations are looking to identity management to enable in an agile way moving to the cloud on their terms and timelines The third driver is the simultaneous rise of mobile The importance of delivering experiences that are secure and personalized becomes even more important on mobile devices where the form factor is just smaller You dont want to ask users for long passwords if theyve got to type them in with their thumbs Where identity can really make things easier and faster with mobile is the use of strong authentication such as the fingerprint reader a mobile phone provides Enterprises no longer need to issue and manage authenticator tokens and key fobs
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