The Case for Digital Identity Management

by Stowe Boyd

Today's IT environment has brought us the extension of the enterprise outside company walls, an explosion in technological complexity, more government regulation, and increasing competition. We are heading for a more complex, interconnected, and risky world. As our economy becomes increasingly global and companies operate in competitive marketplaces, we find, paradoxically, that the boundary at the periphery of the business is growing more porous, and it becomes more difficult to distinguish between who does and who doesn't have access to enterprise information. We are connecting less through direct, face-to-face interaction and more through artificial, computer media, yet we are more involved with one another.