When we talk about Identity and Access what do we really mean? For me, it boils down to who you are and what you are entitled to access.
Simple statement, but it does start to get rather complicated when you think about Identity Management. If you think about your own organisation what directory service does it use? Probably Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS). Think about how many years it has it been fine tuned with integration with third party solutions such as:
- Remote access via RADIUS servers
- Two factor authentication
- Single sign on into applications
- Synchronization of user accounts and groups into hosted web services for web filtering
- Integration with software that provides corporate wide email signatures
- Integration with software that provides automated provisioning and de-provisioning of users
The list does truly go on and on. Most organisations will treat their on-premises Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) as the one…
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