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Martin Kuppinger explains the benefits of Identity and Access Management delivered from the cloud.
Martin Kuppinger explains the benefits of Identity and Access Management delivered from the cloud.
When organizations modernize their Identity and Access Management (IAM), they have three fundamental requirements: an understanding of current capabilities, a migration strategy to transform the IAM infrastructure and finally, the staff with the expertise to execute the plan. The challenges on the way from legacy IAM to a modern IAM infrastructure are manifold and should be considered beforehand.
KupingerCole Webinar recording
Cloud IAM (Identity and Access Management) is on the rise, and it is more than just Single Sign-On. Managing user journeys, directory functionality, access control, and governance is mandatory. Identity and access governance is a key topic in most organizations and, just as with identity provisioning, it does not become obsolete when making the shift to Cloud IAM.
Ralf Knöringer, Manager Business Unit IAM, Atos IT Solutions and Services GmbH
April 19, 2012 8:30
In the digital era, IAM is no longer just about employees. To become truly digital and tap into the new business benefits, organizations need IAM systems that can cater to partners, consumers and even things, as well as support IAM capabilities across all target systems, regardless of their deployment model.
Leveraging what you have and extending it by new services and architectures to support today’s and tomorrow’s business demand on IAM.
IAM (Identity and Access Management) is no longer just an administrative tool or a solution supporting your regulatory compliance requirements. It is a business enabler, as well as an IT enabler. It is a central element of every cybersecurity strategy. It enables managing and access control for everyone from employees to consumers and everything from things to software robots. It is a foundation for your success in digital transformation. It also enables IT transformation, by managing access to all the clouds and services you have to deal with.
But: How to get to a modern IAM form where you may be today? What to preserve, what to extend, what to add, what to retire? And how to do such a migration in a way that you can serve the business demand rapidly, while gaining the time you need for more complex migrations – and while preserving investments in times of tight budgets?
Martin Kuppinger, Principal Analyst at KuppingerCole, will discuss these aspects and explain how the paradigm of an Identity Fabric can help you in successfully modernizing your IAM, at your own pace. He also will shed a light on the state of the market and the maturity of offerings serving the Identity Fabrics model.
Hello to my regular podcast. My name is Martin Kuppinger. Let's look at one of these questions. I'm asked quite frequently, shall we use identity and access management from the cloud first it's not identity access management as the one big thing. It is a lot of very different disciplines. We have these three main ones which are IGAs or the identity governance, administrations of identity, life cycles, access, governances, all that stuff. We have access management of federating users in authentication, all these things.
And we have privileged access management for the highly privileged accounts, plus variety, a range of other disciplines. And so the answer might be slightly different depending on what are we looking at. But basically there's a simple element in that answer based on two, two fundamental changes, we see the first of these fundamental changes is that more and more critical business workloads are shifting to the cloud. And if the workloads are deployed as a service, then the management of security for these workloads should be provided from the cloud.
So apparently it makes a lot of sense to also shift identity management gradually to the cloud, because we have reached this tipping point almost for many organizations, at least where the most of the critical workloads or the bigger part of critical workloads are in the cloud. And then the infrastructure management should be there as well. That is one factor we are seeing the other is that we see this shift to the broadest sense, zero trust where clients access services run somewhere.
And this is also something which goes away or leads us away from our traditional parameter based thinking our data centers. And then again for such environments where, where the internal network not necessarily is part of the entire access anymore. It makes sense to manage this from the cloud. So basically there's a clear tendency. There's a logic behind shifting from traditional on premises, identity management to cloud-based identity and access management. This is not a simply yes, no answer.
We need to look carefully at each and every environment, the requirements regarding security, the status, other stuff, but the tendency is very clear. It will be Ida in most areas over time. That is the basic element, despite the way also the basic element of what we call identity fabric sync in services, which you can deploy in a flexible manner and different deployment models, including full As a service models. So look at our research and identity fabrics and all the other stuff we provided and think about how to shift your workloads. For sure.
We will be more than happy to support you and reviewing your identity management strategy and shifting to a new modern strategy. Following what we call the paradigm of an identity fabric. Thank you for listening to me.
