Identity management market segment encompasses technical and service infrastructure that allows companies to create, manage, and authenticate user identities. Identity management involves four major tasks: authentication, authorization, access control, and audit. Traditional managed PKI vendors, such as Entrust, RSA, and Verisign, are aggressively moving to secure Web Services and better reorient as identity management providers. Solutions built on Web services will play an increasingly important role in the next few years, as will the advent of “federated” identity management standards.”]
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