Cloud Identity and Access Management
Enterprises need a seamless way to provide access for their users to applications and resources on multiple clouds. Identity and Access Management (IAM) is the core component for managing identity across a hybrid cloud. This has two important considerations to manage and solve:
- How to manage identity and access for users to cloud resources, services, and platforms, which is typically referred to as Cloud IAM.
- How to manage identity and access for users for cloud applications, often referred to as IAM for cloud applications
IAM deals with identifying a user and cloud resources and managing access to these resources for the user, based on policies. IAM provides fine-grained access control to cloud resources and services under specific conditions. IAM policies define and manage permissions for each user to specific resources. IAM goals are more business-aligned than technical components. Enterprises need a robust and mature IAM capability...
