The evolution of IAM

Now that you understand more about IAM, how it is used in our daily lives, and the importance of protecting our resources with IAM, it is important to understand how IAM has changed as people and companies have continued to use more applications and resources in the cloud.

This section will discuss the evolution of IAM at a high level. This will provide a better level of understanding in terms of the importance of IAM and how it is changing with the increasingly growing role of cloud technologies within companies and for personal use. Three stages are discussed when talking about IAM: traditional, advanced, and optimal. We will go through each of these in detail.

Traditional

Traditional IAM is how IAM was handled prior to cloud technologies. As a company, all applications and user identities were within a private data center. Users that connected to resources did so through secure virtual private network (VPN) connections into the data center to access...