Second days of conferences, are usually more subdued affairs, generally due to the festivities the night before. Well, sadly this time I was unable to take part in said merriment, which took the form of a 'floating networking' event down some 'suggestive canals', according to my personal invite. Wow, suggestive canals, whatever next? Bawdy bridges? Even so, managed to arrive the next morning with not enough sleep and one or two images of the night before seared onto my brain for all eternity. Then the speakers went all IDM on us.

Forrester analyst Jonathan Penn explained that current identity management solutions are limited in that they are still failing to break down the fundamental silos of different identities in the organisation. The future, he told us, abstracts all of the authentication, workflow, policy services and so on, into a service – IdaaS – effectively isolating it from the applications themselves. So put that in your security pipe and smoke it.