For the past two decades, businesses have been making significant investments to consolidate their identity and access management platforms and directories to manage user identities in one place.
Instead, businesses must learn how to consistently and effectively manage user identities across multiple IAM platforms and directories.
As cloud migration and digital transformation accelerate at a dizzying pace, enterprises are left with a host of new identity challenges that many aren't prepared to deal with.
The proliferation of diverse cloud environments, each with its own identity solutions, coupled with the complexities of legacy systems, has resulted in fragmented and siloed identity services.
A recent Osterman Research Report found that 52% of organizations stated that addressing identity access challenges in hybrid and multi-cloud environments was a critical initiative for them over the next year.
As identity services multiply across hybrid cloud environments, organizations struggle to manage and enforce consistent user policies, comply with changing regulations, gain holistic visibility and mitigate user-related risks.
Legacy applications remain tethered to legacy identity solutions, creating an inconsistent user experience without a single authoritative source for a user's identity.
Osterman research showed the top identity initiative for the next twelve months for 64% of the responding organizations was extending cloud identity capabilities to on-prem applications.
Businesses need a versatile solution that complements existing identity solutions while effectively integrating the various IAM silos that organizations have today into a cohesive whole.
This is where an identity fabric comes into play: to bridge the gap between legacy identity infrastructure and modern cloud-based IAM systems.
An identity fabric aims to integrate and enhance existing solutions rather than replace them.
This approach aligns with our strategy of "Taking the complexity out of identity solutions for hybrid environments."
The first step is to eliminate the identity silos by creating a single, authoritative directory.
Orchestration is the integration glue to an identity fabric.
Without it, building an identity fabric would be resource-intensive.
You have a legacy application with a homegrown identity system.
Orchestration enables you to create a workflow so that when a user logs in to the system, it automatically creates a user account on the preferred modern identity solution with low code or no code identity orchestration.
Effective identity orchestration allows you to achieve simplicity in legacy and modern application coexistence, remove the burden of identity solution proliferation, consolidate identity silos, reduce identity solution vendor lock-in and simplify identity solution migrations by allowing for highly customizable flows with little-to-no code across identity solutions.
Whether you are an organization looking for workforce access, customer IAM, privileged access or governance identity solutions, or looking to build an identity fabric with your existing identity solutions, IBM Security Verify takes the complexity out of identity solutions for hybrid environments, emphasizing innovation and customer-centricity.
We invite all stakeholders to join us on this transformative journey as we shape the future of IAM. Together, we will simplify identity solutions for the ever-evolving world of hybrid environments.
This Cyber News was published on securityintelligence.com. Publication date: Fri, 01 Dec 2023 23:06:56 +0000