As they strive to meet the demands of today’s technical landscape, there’s a new challenge arising for the world’s largest organizations. These external demands can be summed up in 3 pressing imperatives that all enterprises must embrace: Deliver on modernize IT initiatives Create secure and seamless customer experiences Adopt a zero-trust security model In the past, Identity and Access Management has been viewed as more of a technology issue than a business concern. This perspective, however, has led IT teams to invest in technologies as a means to address urgent issues—not as a strategic approach to security. This lack of strategy has created a fragmented approach to addressing the needs of the business, and an “alphabet soup” of vendors and technical debt. Specifically, this “whack-a-mole” response has caused: Increasing complexity due to custom code Fragile, inflexible workflows A lack of automation Multiple Active Directory instances Needlessly complex architecture A lack.