Leadership Compass: Cloud IAM/IAG - 71121

The Cloud IAM market is currently driven by products that focus on providing Single Sign-On to various Cloud services as their major feature and business benefit. This will change, with two distinct evolutions of more advanced services forming the market: Cloud-based IAM/IAG (Identity Access Management/Governance) as an alternative to on-premise IAM suites, and Cloud IAM solutions that bring a combination of directory services, user management, and access management to the Cloud.

There are many terms for what we call “Cloud IAM” for Cloud Identity and Access Management. IDMaaS (Identity Management as a Service), IDaaS (Identity as a Service), and various other names are used. However, there is no common understanding of what constitutes that market segment To which vendors have taken different paths. One common denominator is Cloud Single Sign-On, which allows users to access a portal that links to “his” (or “her”) Cloud services and provides a seamless login, either based on passing through username and password or relying on Identity Federation standards.