Things To Know About IDaaS
What is IDaaS? You may
be asking yourself this question if you are hearing about IDaaS for the first
time. In full, it stands for Identity as a Service, and it is a SaaS-based IAM
offering that allows organizations to use single sign-on (SSO using SAML or
OIDC), authentication and access controls to provide secure access to their
growing number of software as well as SaaS applications.
IDaaS can
also be defined as a predominantly cloud-based service in a multi-tenant or
dedicated and hosted delivery model that brokers core identity governance and administration
(IGA), access as well as intelligence functions with the aim of targeting
systems on customer’ premises and in the cloud. The core aspects of IDaaS are
IGA, access and intelligence. IGA deals
with provisioning of users to cloud applications and password reset
functionality, access comprises user authentication, SSO and authorization
supporting federation standards such as SAML, and intelligence has to do with identity
access log monitoring and reporting.
Basic Identity
as a Service is the support of SaaS apps. It has proven to be very effective
for the small and medium business market, particularly the “born in the cloud”
organizations. However, for IDaaS to be effective in the digital enterprise, it
should have a broader application. A lot of enterprises feature complex
information technology environments that include a mix of on-premises, PaaS, IaaS,
and SaaS applications.
Additionally,
enterprises typically use Identity as a Service to extend their existing IAM
infrastructure. For this reason, enterprise IDaaS providers must deploy
solutions that have the ability to bridge to existing user directories for
authentication, integrate with existing web access management products to
comply with access policy, integrate with a diverse mix of non-SaaS enterprise
applications in their data centers or hosted in a third-party data center, and
provide access management for web, mobile and API environments.
For more information on IDaaS, visit our website
at https://authid.ai/
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