Business Value of Securing the Hybrid IT with a Unified Identity
The proliferation of applications like Salesforce, Zoom, and Slack has enabled organizations to better serve their employees and customers while accelerating their cloud adoption. However, many companies adopting the cloud will still keep some of their mission-critical applications hosted on-premises, creating hybrid IT environments that require consistent security, identity, and access control.
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To address this challenge, organizations traditionally utilize one of two approaches:
APPROACH 1: Adopt legacy web access management (WAM) solutions
Many organizations rely on legacy Single Sign-On (SSO) solutions hosted on-premises — also known as Web Access Management (WAM) — that are not built for cloud scale and to deliver unified access across the hybrid IT stack.
APPROACH 2: Secure on-premises applications individually
Other organizations expend valuable administrative resources to manually manage legacy IT with little to no automation.
However, neither of these approaches is ideal leading IT with a conundrum. Not only do these approaches result in high financial and productivity costs but they’re also hamstrung by disjointed end-user experiences where cloud applications have a different login than custom and on-premises applications. This leads to a situation where IT and business leaders fe