Atos Evidian IDaaS

Identity & Access Management (IAM) sits at the core of modern enterprise IT because it governs digital identities—employees, partners, customers, and increasingly devices—and controls access to systems, applications, and data. As organizations shift toward mobile work, deeper partner/customer integration, cloud applications, and connected “things,” the traditional network perimeter has weakened while the value of digital corporate assets and intellectual property has grown, turning them into “crown jewels” even in traditionally physical industries. In this environment, reducing attack surface and enabling secure business operations depends on managing accounts and entitlements well, enforcing least privilege, promoting multifactor authentication over passwords, automating provisioning and deprovisioning, and routinely reviewing access to identify excessive entitlements.

A major market trend is the convergence of on-premises IAM toward Identity as a Service (IDaaS), driven by faster time-to-value and the “evergreen” benefit of continuously updated, secured services with immediate access to new features. IDaaS offerings vary widely, from SSO to full provisioning and access governance, and differ in how they support user populations, mobile access, and hybrid integrations back to on-premises environments.

Atos Evidian IDaaS Identity as-a-Service is a new IDaaS offering whose initial release focuses on Access Management, authentication, and identity federation, with more advanced Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) capabilities on the near-term roadmap. The solution provides a single portal for secure access, supports SAML, OAuth, and OpenID Connect, includes MFA for modern passwordless approaches, and manages access via central policies. It also emphasizes rapid application onboarding via templates, strong legacy application integration (including an SDK and RADIUS), flexible authenticator support (FIDO, push, OTP), and analytics dashboards. Its modular Terraform/Kubernetes architecture with CI/CD supports scale, and the service is positioned as an EU-based option, with straightforward pricing and plans to expand into comprehensive identity-fabric foundations.

• IAM manages identities and their access by handling accounts, entitlements, and access across many systems and applications.
• The enterprise perimeter has become less relevant due to mobile access, partner/customer integration, and cloud adoption.
• IDaaS is a fast-growing IAM segment delivering IAM capabilities via cloud-based services.
• The IDaaS market’s growth is driven by improved time-to-value and the “evergreen” model of continuous updates and immediate new features.
• IDaaS offerings range from Single Sign-On to identity provisioning and access governance for on-premises and cloud solutions.
• Evidian has more than 20 years of experience in the IAM market.
• The first release of Evidian IDaaS focuses on Access Management, authentication, and identity federation.
• Evidian IDaaS supports federation standards including SAML, OAuth, and OpenID Connect.
• Evidian IDaaS supports MFA methods including FIDO standards, mobile push, and OTP tokens, and also supports RADIUS.
• The platform is modular and uses Terraform, Kubernetes, and an integrated CI/CD pipeline, and is prepared for Gaia-X Federated Data Infrastructure.

• “IAM today is at the core of enterprise IT infrastructures.”
• “The perimeter which separated the internal network from the outer world does not have the same relevance it had before.”
• “IAM done right ensures that identities, their user accounts, and their access entitlements are well-managed and that authentication works as expected.”
• “IAM thus reduces the attack surface by helping organizations moving towards the ‘least privilege’ principle.”
• “IAM is the tool for implementing the workflows and automated processes for onboarding users and granting them access.”
• “The market… offers full-fledged delivery of IAM capabilities irrespective of application delivery models.”
• “The service is always secured, up to date and new features are immediately made available.”
• “The focus of the solution is on enabling secure, device- and location-independent access to services through a single portal.”
• “New applications can be integrated into the dashboard rapidly, utilizing applications templates.”
• “Evidian offers a straightforward, all-inclusive pricing model… which allows their customers for true control over their budget.”