Privacy, Policy and Personalization Added to Burton Group's Identity Management Research and Advisory Offering

Identity and Privacy Strategies Service to Provide Strategic Advice About Identity Management, Policy, Privacy, and Personalization

Burton Group, the only IT research and advisory firm focused exclusively on offering in-depth analysis of enterprise infrastructure technologies, today announced an enhancement to its research and advisory service covering identity management. The newly named Identity and Privacy Strategies service will enable IT professionals to plan deploy, and manage an agile identity infrastructure.

The research coverage areas for Identity and Privacy Strategies include:

--  Identity Management
--  Policy, Privacy, and Personalization
--  Directory Services
--  Methodologies and Best Practices
    

"The pressure of international regulations mandates a dynamic, integrated approach to identity infrastructure," said Mike Neuenschwander, Burton Group associate research director. "Regulatory compliance issues are creating broad changes in enterprise IT architectures. Identity and Privacy Strategies provides practical information and advice on adjusting to such changes while accelerating deployment of identity management systems."

Burton Group has assembled a team of highly respected industry analysts to provide practical research that enterprise organizations expect from Burton Group. Dan Blum, senior vice president and research director, will lead the service along with Mike Neuenschwander.

Identity and Privacy Strategies is designed for IT directors, architects, strategists, and engineers seeking in-depth and independent technical analysis of identity technologies, vendor strategies and products as well as policy aspects of IT infrastructure.

"The identity management landscape is shifting rapidly," says Sorell Slaymaker of United Health Technologies Security & Network Enterprise Architecture group. "We think Burton Group's Identity and Privacy Strategies service will keep us up-to-date on the issues and will advise us on our identity management infrastructure."

The service is a versatile suite of decision-making resources that includes in-depth research reports, TeleBriefings and Burton Group's Reference Architecture. Reference Architecture is a unique tool that provides Burton Group clients specific business and technology principles to help them make confident architecture decisions.

The following research topics will be covered during Application Platform Strategies' inaugural year:

--  Federation and identity standards
--  Authentication
--  RFID
--  Single sign on
--  Directory servers
--  Compliance
--  Identity theft
--  Privacy regulation
    

About Burton Group

Burton Group www.burtongroup.com)"> is the only enterprise IT research and advisory services firm focused exclusively on offering in-depth analysis of infrastructure technologies. Burton Group's unbiased research and advice helps technologists make smart enterprise architecture decisions in increasingly complex environments.

Burton Group research and consulting services focus exclusively on infrastructure technologies relating to security, identity management, application platforms, and networks. Burton Group is an unbiased advocate for the enterprise technologist. This commitment is reflected in the fact that more than 80% of Burton Group's clients are enterprise organizations rather than product vendors, or service organizations. These companies span key market sectors including aerospace, automotive, financial services, education, energy, government, healthcare, insurance, manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, and retail.

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