230 Security De-engineering
administration to accelerate return-on-investment and improve user
productivity,” then they had better be ready to actually look at the
benets in the light of the nasty IT details of client infrastructures.
Not all larger rms have a user management problem—they will be
using LDAP/AD as it is. Certainly, not every business will see a sig-
nicant nancial benet from use of an IdM product.
e IdM drumbeaters talk endlessly about integrating user accounts
across “multiple sites and applications,” but the reality is that not all
applications can be integrated under the IdM umbrella. Unfortunately,
many buyers of IdM solutions only discover this after their IdM prod-
uct acquisition. So end users have an IdM package ...