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Hosted and IAM-as-a-service to form 20% of sector by 2011

Hosted identity and access management (IAM) services will increase its market share by 2011, an analyst asserts.

Gartner predicts this method and IAM-as-a-service will grow to a fifth of the IAM sector during this period, which could create opportunities for network security course graduates.

Ant Allan, research vice president at the firm, claims there is an increasing need for cost-effective and risk-appropriate methods.

He states: "This includes growing demand for identity-aware networking, host and service-based IAM offerings and the search for protection from increasingly effective malware attacks against consumer accounts."

Gartner states that by 2011 nearly a third of corporation will be controlling access to resources by user-based policies, increasingly becoming identity aware.

In addition, by next year, it believes 15 per cent of global firms processing customer information will do so through an out-of-band form of authentication.

Director of policy at Liberty Isabella Sankey recently called on the government to improve the level of data protection it will be using for databases of people information, which could lead to job opportunities for network security course graduates.