What are your Priorities in the Identity Management space?

As a researcher at HP Labs I have some ideas and opinions about what could be (long-term) priorities in the Identity Management space. Some of these opinions are driven by factual information (analysis of trends, etc.) others by intuitions. I expressed some of my views in various previous posts.

Listening to people and customers is another important source – to understand what is valuable and required by the business. For example, a customer has recently told me that their key priorities in the identity management space include:

• Consolidation, integration and coordinated management of various identity management systems in their organisation: this apparently is still a major issue and problem to be solved;
• Suitable authentication mechanisms for their customers, along with mechanisms providing a better attestation of their asserted identities.

As you can see, these are not very fancy “things” but they are very important from a business perspective.

What are your priorities in the Identity management space? Which areas of identity management you think are/will be more valuable to you/your business/the market?

--- NOTE: my original HP blog can be found here ---