Had an exciting meet-and-greet with Jackson Shaw, the Sr. Product Manager from Quest, and I have to say, there is a big difference sitting in my home office writing about this stuff than going out to the shows and meeting with the movers and shakers of identity and access management.
Jackson Shaw has a history as long as identity and access management itself, even before it was actually called identity and access management. He is currently with Quest Software, and Jackson said that even though many of the IAM solutions are offering automation, that does not mean they are offering simplicity, as in fact automation can often just add more complexity.
I also had to ask Jackson if it really felt like something big and important really was under way at this year's summit, or if it just felt like this every year (this being my first year how could I know?). Nope, he said, something's definitely happening this year, world's are colliding. That is just like me, to join something just as it's about to hit big.
We had a long and far ranging talk about all things IAM, and on parting, I asked Jackson what we should look for 2008. He replied, "We're really going to start to see market forces collide around identity and access management from the consumer side and from the corporate side, and how that is going to force some of the revolution that Gartner and others are predicting."
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