Research: Gartner® Predicts 2024: The Changing Role of the Identity and Access Management Leader

In the Gartner Predicts 2024: The Changing Role of the Identity and Access Management Leader, expert analysts Michael Kelley, Rebecca Archambault, Nathan Harris, Henrique Teixeira and Oscar Isaka identify, “As the world inexorably moves toward identity-first security approaches, the responsibilities and requirements of the IAM leader will continue to evolve. We have defined several possible predictions for how an IAM leader will function, in and out of the C-suite, during the upcoming years.”

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Key findings

  • “The disciplines, practices and technologies known collectively as identity and access management have evolved into enablers for business and the core control plane for cybersecurity.”
  • “IAM’s evolution is affecting the ways that IAM teams function and, in particular, how the roles of security and risk management leaders responsible for IAM are changing.”
  • “IAM will no longer be relegated to one technology tower in the overall IT infrastructure group of most businesses; instead, it will deliver foundational capabilities for all of IT.”
  • “IAM leaders will evolve in different directions, depending on the organization, each with increased responsibility, visibility and influence.”

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Source: Gartner, Predicts 2024: The Changing Role of the Identity and Access Management Leader. Michael Kelley, Rebecca Archambault, Nathan Harris, Henrique Teixeira, Oscar Isaka. 1 December 2023