Many federal organizations are meeting cloud computing strategies for persistent access to information by leveraging software-as-a-service (SaaS) technology for their enterprise mission use cases. For the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), enabling cloud innovation must support data to and from various environments. DoD’s mission capabilities are increasingly influenced and dependent on software, to the extent that they’re actively working to extend cloud access points to the tactical edge: environments with limited bandwidth, sporadic connectivity, or no connection to the internet. Tactical edge examples we’ve seen at Okta include military operations in remote or isolated areas, U.S.-led humanitarian efforts where hurricane-force winds knock over power lines, and critical infrastructure organizations planning for complete and total internet access disruption. In a tactical edge scenario, user experience (UX) and services may be limited due to those environmental conditions, but at Okta, we believe that Identity, Credential, and Access Management (ICAM) decisions should.