The explosion in electronic service delivery globally sees governments and large private sector organisations facing a number of issues which are rapidly driving change from a multi-siloed approach to identity management and user authentication to one of managing their diverse user base in a coordinated and consistent manner across the entire enterprise.

These drivers include:

• Increasing systemic and targeted threats from external parties
• A drive to greater integration of business systems and their user bases
• Multiple services take-up by for both internal and external users
• Requirements for increasing flexibility of organisational structure
• Decreasing ability to manage services and online access to them

These issues have lead government and businesses globally to the view that a more structured and organised corporate-wide approach is required for managing and controlling the “who, when, what, how and why” of user access to corporate resources.

As a result there has been a recent but rapid evolution and maturing of Identity Management as a corporate-wide function encompassing policies, processes, systems and technologies that address the operational risks, systems usability and technology management issues surrounding internal and external user access to assets at an enterprise level.

Thales SafeSign is the pre-eminent authentication services technology, interworking with leading access and permissions management systems, to handle the critical “who” element of enterprise trust infrastructures.