Analyzing Recent Trends in Enterprise Identity Management

Recent data breaches caused by highly-privileged insiders (e.g. the NSA/Snowden case) as well as the proliferation 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.