Creating identity and access governance across cloud environments is crucial for modern organizations. In our previous post, we discussed how important human and non-human identities are for these environments and why their management and the governance of their access can be difficult.
In the face of these challenges, our cloud identity and access governance (CIAG) approach offers an orchestration layer between cloud identity and access management (IAM) and enterprise IAM, as the following graphic shows.
As we continue our CIAG series, let’s take a deeper dive into how it can impact your organization’s cloud environments.
CIAG and IAM Are Crucial For Cloud Security
CIAG deals with processes, policies and supporting infrastructure to manage identities in cloud environments, provide governance for identities and access rights and facilitate integration into an enterprise IAM framework.
When discussing CIAG, our clients often ask why we do not see cloud IAM as part of enterprise IAM. Our answer is that it should be, but in most cases, it is not. CIAG endeavors to close this gap.
How can this be done? These critical capabilities for CIAG can be used to create a roadmap for initiatives and activities for mature CIAG in an organization.
These critical capabilities are not new, but they take on a new character in cloud environments.
CIAG’s Fundamental Capabilities
Coordination with Stakeholders
Coordination and cooperation with stakeholders are critical success factors for controlling cloud environments. It is not enough for security, IAM and cloud experts to work together. They must also coordinate with human resources, compliance and resource management. Cooperation with DevOps engineers, developers and administrators is also ..
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