Cloud IAM and the Path Toward Digital Transformation

Cloud IAM and the Path Toward Digital Transformation

By 2022, 40% of global midsize and larger organizations will use identity and access management (IAM) capabilities delivered as software-as-a-service (SaaS) to fulfill most of their needs, cites a 2019 Gartner press release on IAM technology trends.


Today, businesses are aligning themselves with a digital ecosystem by moving toward cloud adoption. On the journey toward cloud adoption, a crucial element of digital readiness is safe identity assurance. This assurance is needed to define and maintain identities requiring access to resources at certain times and in specific ways.


Amid this ongoing push toward cloud adoption, businesses have many questions around requirements, implementation and compliance. Here are considerations for evolving cloud IAM on the path digital transformation.


Cloud IAM and On-Premise IAM


When businesses subscribe to multiple cloud services, managing security concerns is critical; however, on-premise IAM is not enough to secure identities in such a wide arena. Despite the importance of ensuring these services adhere to an organization’s security and compliance requirements, many enterprises are hesitant about the idea of breaking their existing comfort zone with on-premise IAM.


For example, a customer I worked with had a roadmap to transition to cloud, but also had serious concerns about why they should move away from on-premise IAM. Given that they’d been using an on-premise IAM solution for 12 years, their primary concern came from cloud infrastructure being so new. Would cloud IAM prove to be stable enough? And, would it protect their personally identifiable information (PII)?


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