Three Key Pillars of Smart Identity

Three Key Pillars of Smart Identity

For years, identity and access management (IAM) was that painful necessity that businesses knew they had to spend time and resources on, but it was always done kind of grudgingly. Oh, how times have changed! CIOs and CISOs alike have recognized the critical role that identity plays in an overall digital transformation and security program centered around Zero Trust. Businesses are evaluating how they can modernize IAM to address today’s hybrid multicloud challenges.


IAM is all about providing secure, frictionless access for any user to access any resource. In the context of identity, “user” represents a very broad category of people and things. People include privileged users, the workforce at large including employees and contractors, and consumers. Things include servers, service accounts, application programming interfaces (APIs), and even internet of things (IOT) devices. To enjoy a consistently secure and frictionless environment, these users need a common experience regardless of whether the resource they are accessing resides on-premises, or across various public and private clouds.


Organizations understand that this can’t be accomplished with a hodge-podge of identity solutions that only work in specific silos: one solution for access management, another one for governance, another one for privileged users, another one for customers, and so on. At the same time, ripping and replacing all existing IAM solutions is rarely an option that organizations are willing to explore. What if there were a smart, modernized and modular platform that could integrate into the existing environment and provide a consistent, secure experience and the ability to adopt new use cases over time? What would the three key pillars of this solution look like?


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