Analyzing Recent Trends in Enterprise Identity Management

Abstract—Recent data breaches caused by highly-privileged insiders (e.g. the NSA/Snowden case) as well as the prolifer-ation of mobile and cloud applications in enterprises imposes new challenges for Identity Management. To cope with these challenges, business analysts have predicted a variety of trends for enterprise Identity Management. In this paper, we conduct a thorough literature analysis to examine to which extent the scientific community seizes upon these trends and identify major research areas therein. Results show that despite the analysts’ predictions, research stagnates for attribute-based access control and privileged user management, while for cloud-based IdM and bring your own device it corresponds to the analysts ’ forecast. I