By Gary Bolles  |  Posted 03-01-2003  Technology: Identity
Management           Ask Your IT Staff:   Ask Your Vendors:
What is the range of costs for an identity management
initiative?  Ask Your Security Auditors:  Which critical
identity management issues do you care about the most?    Sure,
identity management can be a huge problem. Dare to think small.
Once companies gain a general understanding of their major
identity management issues, the natural response is to try to
deal with every one of them all at once through a single major
initiative. But experts say it's far better to take a step-by-
step approach, focusing first on critical areas of security
exposure and support costs. How do you make sure, for instance,
that an employee who's been fired has actually been removed from
every point of access?  That's a huge problem for the average
company wrestling with a pile of old and new applications, each
with its own proprietary access method. Even the simplest forms
of user identity—names and passwords—ar