Large enterprises seeking to get to grips with the internet of things (IoT) will have a whole new series of challenges to meet.
That’s according to Gartner, which said identity and access management (IAM) won’t be able to scale or to manage the complexity that the IOT brings to enterprises.
The problem is that enterprises will need a method to define and manage the identities of entities – by which Gartner means people, services and things, inside one framework.
This Gartner calls the Identity of Things (IDoT) which will have to be able to include all entity identities and also to define relationships between these entities.
It all sounds very complex but it is a problem that chief information officers (CIOs) will have to learn.
Gartner did not say whether such definitions have even been thought of yet, but is holding a conference on March 16-17th in London to hammer out the different problems and approaches.
