Hey, it's Vince with JumpCloud®. Welcome to another episode of our "What is" video series.
In this episode, we'll be talking about Cloud Identity Management. So,
what is cloud identity management? Cloud identity management refers to the
ability to manage digital user identities from the cloud, rather than
on-prem. This includes the ability to manage usernames, passwords, and the huge
variety of other attributes that are connected at the same person. In doing so,
IT can federate user identities and provide secure access to a wide array of
IT resources, both in the cloud and on-premise. Why leverage cloud
identity management versus on-prem? Traditionally, identity management
capabilities have been delivered by on-prem IAM platforms such as Microsoft
Active Directory® (AD) and OpenLDAP™. AD has been especially popular, primarily due to
the dominance of the Windows operating system. When AD came to market in 1999,
most user identities were Windows-based, which gave AD a built-in advantage.
The interesting challenge now though is that IT organizations leverage a large number
of non-Windows resources, both on-prem and in the cloud. This is a challenge
because AD has remained the primary on-prem identity management platform in
most IT organizations, but focuses on Windows-based user identities.
Consequently, IT organizations then require third party tools to manage
non-Windows user identities for Mac Linux, web applications, G suite, AWS, third party
storage solutions, and a lot more. The end result is a number of identity silos
that must be managed independently on top of managing AD, and not to mention
the added costs. Ideally, IT organizations would be able to leverage a single
identity management platform that could manage user identities regardless of the
platform, provider, protocol, or location. It would be even
better if the identity management platform could shift the heavy lifting
of maintaining an on-prem identity management infrastructure to the cloud.
Fortunately, a next-generation directory services platform has emerged that is
effectively the holy grail for modern identity management. It's called JumpCloud
Directory-as-a-Service, and it is effectively Active Directory reimagined
for modern networks; a server-less identity management platform that adapts
to your IT environment, not the other way around.
Contact JumpCloud to learn how the Directory-as-a-Service platform can
manage user identities and securely connect them to systems, applications,
files, and networks; regardless of their platform, provider, protocol, or location;
and all without anything on-prem. You can also sign up for a free account, schedule
a demo, or continue watching to discover everything that JumpCloud has to offer.
Sign up today and your first 10 users are free forever.
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