At the turn of the 21st century, the identity management discipline within IT Security was born of necessity. Advancements in computer technology meant that every area, function, and discipline within organizations was turning to automation to gain a competitive advantage. A computer was placed on every desk, and servers, mini-computers, and mainframes were being deployed to automate every area of the business. By Chris Olive.
We are now seeing this pattern repeat with the mass proliferation of data to the cloud, catalyzed by the tsunami of Digital Transformation. The modern organization needs to adopt a Data-Centric Security approach to safely execute their digital transformation strategy.
The article then pays attention to:
- Digital transformation has radicalized the data security landscape
- Data security needs to grow up and mature
- Speed
- Scale
- Strategy
Transformation based on automation twenty years ago meant organizations simply couldn’t keep pace with identity lifecycle events or address growing compliance and reporting needs using previous methods. Keeping up with the Speed of business was a real issue. Twenty years ago, Identity management was born from a massive acceleration of technology enablement adopted by organizations as a transformative need. Today, digital transformation driven by massive amounts of data is transforming the business landscape at incredible speed and in ways that seem to dwarf the transformation of the past. Good read!
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