Jackson Shaw is Senior Director of Product Management for Identity and Access Management at Quest Software. Jackson joined Quest as part of its acquisition of Vintela. He oversees product direction, strategy and go-to-market activities for Quest. Prior to Quest, Jackson was a key member of the identity and access management marketing team for the Windows server marketing group at Microsoft. He was responsible for product planning and marketing for Microsoft's identity and access management products, including Active Directory and Microsoft Identity Integration Server (MIIS) 2003. Jackson has been involved in directory, meta-directory and security initiatives for 20 years. He has spoken at various industry events and writes a popular identity management blog. Check it out at http://jacksonshaw.blogspot.com. He can also be reached at jackson.shaw@quest.com.
Today’s complex, heterogeneous enterprises contain multifaceted and diverse information systems. The proliferation of the personal computer and the networking of those computers have caused the number and types of systems that are accessed, as well as the number of employees who must be granted access, to grow exponentially. An enterprise may use any combination of […]