Last week I was in Wisconsin attending the BrainStorm 16.0 conference where I had an epiphany:

Identity management was originally developed to help organizations either adhere to external compliance concerns, such as HIPAA or SOX, or internal governance concerns like process controls. The net result of these concerns was automating processes to force compliance. Technically speaking, automation then became a side effect of compliance.

In education, however, the initial concern was not governance, but rather the bulk management of massive environments. A school’s entrypoint to identity management had always started with automation.

At Brainstorm 16.0, I realized that schools are now more and more concerned with ensuring appropriate student/teacher access to systems and programs, which, ironically, is actually the old way of seeing identity management.

Last week, Steven Norton published a blog post to The Wall Street Journal’s CIO Journal about increases in ‘next-gen’ security spending. It was a good post highlighting something that I think most people are aware of - enterprise security threats are very real and more and more enterprises are putting technologies and processes in place to prevent them.

Joining over 100 corporations including Apple, Google, Khan Academy, and Microsoft, we are pleased to support Student Privacy Pledge in their mission to safeguard the privacy of students in grades K through 12.

Today, I’m writing with a big announcement. When we introduced our new brand identity several months ago – a new logo, new website, and new marketing materials – we were changing our look to better represent who we are today, and who we’ll be tomorrow – a provider of world-class identity management solutions.

Identity Automation, a fast-growing identity management software provider, is thrilled to be included in the 2015 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Identity Governance and Administration, which cited its outstanding customer support. The 2015 Magic Quadrant for IGA, which is dedicated to providing qualitative analysis of market trends and top performers, was released last week.

Identity Automation was featured in a recent Network World article:

We are excited to announce the release of ARMS and DSS Version 3.1 on April 1st. This release has several bug fixes as well as many new features. The new features we would like to highlight are the new Mobile UI for ARMS and the Multi-Factor Authentication for FIMS.

Network World published an article entitled K-12 schools can make the grade with identity and access management featuring one of Identity Automation’s customers and the use of our software in their environment:

Identity Automation had a fantastic showing at the Amazon AWS re:Invent Conference. Here’s a link to a write-up by Analyst Richard Stiennon about the event.

TechTarget has a great write up on North Carolina's installation of Identity Automation's system.