Identity management projects are getting the top attention in enterprises in terms of security spending priorities, according to Gartner, which will be taking up the subject at its annual Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit 2010 conference later this month. IT professionals at 308 companies participated in the survey. Gartner conducts the survey annually to assess trends, and this year it appears that projects that may have been put on the backburner because of the recession are now being put into action. While identity management ranks first in the top five priorities for security, the balance in the list includes data-loss prevention, anti-virus, firewalls and intrusion prevention. Identity management appears to be taking the lead as a top priority as businesses look to deploy some of the more advanced federated identity technologies both within the enterprise for single sign-on and as a way to potentially extend identity-based access control into cloud-computing environments.

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