Cloud migration can only be complete if your business becomes familiar with a lot of security measures offered by major cloud platforms. These measures are essential to safeguard the new highly scalable environments. And to guarantee secure access to resources your employees need, it is imperative to efficiently manage staff identities and access rights to resources. But, it is important for major decision-makers and IT teams to understand what cloud identity management covers.
Cloud Identity and Cloud Security
Identity management refers to the ability to effectively identify, authenticate, and authorise individual users or groups and their access to certain data. Permissions and restrictions for users on what they can access and perform are related to established identities made by an organisation. Identity and access management (IAM) is the security discipline that allows the right people to access the right resources at the right time for the right reasons.
As enterprises embrace digital transformation through cloud computing, it has become possible to have flexible access to applications and data anywhere at any time. Enterprises must have the right capabilities to safeguard their new adoption of cloud technology and protect data confidentiality.
Benefits of Contemporary Identity Cloud Tools
Here is a breakdown of the main benefits of identity tools and how they are important in giving better overall cloud security, data protection, and identity management for your organisation:
- Centralised identity management. Modern identity tools help businesses that have hybrid infrastructures to incorporate their cloud and local directories seamlessly and helps administrators manage accounts from a location, no matter where an account is made. With this benefit, administrators can easily manage data and users become more productive as they can use a common identity to access resources in both on-premise and cloud.
- Role-based access control (RBAC). With contemporary identity tools, enterprises can use built-in RBAC roles to assign privileges to users, applications, groups at some scopes. This makes it possible to better enforce data and resource access control by not offering more privileges than necessary to users.
- Single-sign On (SSO). Identity tools enable SSO to all applications, devices, and services, letting users use the same credentials to access the resources they need across cloud and on-premise. They work from any location without worrying about juggling several passwords. Also, administrators do not need to spend time learning and working with more than one identity solution to achieve single-sign on. Without SSO, companies may face scenarios with users having many weak passwords.
