As veterans of the privileged identity management (PIM) field, my
colleagues and I hear some unsettling stories from organizations whose
privileged identity management deployments did not provide the expected
business value. We’ve also heard from organizations whose purchases led
to years of expensive service engagements yet never delivered the agreed
scope of work.
At the heart of this problem is that many organizations seem to grasp
too late that implementing a privileged identity management solution is
too important a process to delegate to a rubber-stamp RFP or a battle of
vendor check boxes. If handled correctly your implementation can enable you to close
critical security loopholes; help make staff members accountable for
actions that impact IT service and data security; and lower the cost of
regulatory compliance.
Yet the wrong choices too often turn into expensive shelf-ware – or worse.