Identity As A Key Enabler For Cloud

Introduction

Legacy identity and access management (IAM) is often considered a cumbersome, complex, and archaic monolith. In particular, legacy IAM often requires lengthy development time for updates and onboarding new applications, particularly cloud applications. Additionally, many security and technology professionals fear that changes made to an identity system will create havoc throughout their environment, especially with dependent downstream systems. All of this is leading many government agencies to look elsewhere to remedy their digital identity woes.

If legacy approaches to digital identity are inflexible and monolithic, modern identity solutions are agile and adaptable. Modern digital identity systems are flexible and lightweight and often come out of the box with prebuilt integrations with a variety of applications and platforms. These new systems take an API-first approach to identity and are vendor-neutral, scalable, secure, and easy to use.