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Extending Identity and Access Management to the Cloud

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July 2009

It seems like just yesterday when companies struggled to manage identities across multiple on-premise applications. As they adopted more desktop applications, managing user access became a greater challenge with multiple user accounts and passwords scattered across the enterprise.

Eventually single sign-on solutions appeared on the market to address the diverse mix of identities and access scenarios. While these solutions offered acceptable identity and access management (IAM) within a single corporate network, these products also introduced business challenges including:

» Steep upfront software costs
» Hidden maintenance, support and upgrade costs
» Lengthy integration and deployment cycles
» Vendor lock-in
» Non-scalable solutions

Just a few years later the enterprise is changing once again. This evolving ecosystem has created a new paradigm in the way organizations deploy, access, and use networked information, applications, and resources. As companies look to improve collaboration of their resources and streamline costs, they are turning to Software as a Service (SaaS) and Cloud-based computing to solve these business challenges.

For companies looking to expand network boundaries to the edge and embrace the Cloud, IAM once again takes center stage as a mission critical requirement. As always, organizations must tackle these security and business challenges with reduced budgets and limited staff without increasing the size of their existing infrastructure. Like any IT solution, there is an even greater need in today’s economy to reduce the time to value of identity and access implementations. Today’s Cloud-based security solutions must:

» Lower upfront costs through subscription-based pricing
» Avoid IT infrastructure costs
» Provide easy integration and automatic upgrades
» Be secure and scalable solution

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