Software powers your business. Infrastructure powers your software. To remain competitive in today’s fast-paced landscape, your applications need to be highly available and performant. To meet that demand, your systems need to be resilient and secure. When you add that up, it’s the Operations and Security teams that carry the responsibility of those four key traits. Remember them, and remember them well: availability, performance, resilience, and security. Every company along their cloud journey reaches a critical point along the way where the complexities of scale rear their ugly head, risking the most important attribute of them all—customer delight. On the surface, access management may not seem like a barrier to scaling cloud adoption. But as those who carry the responsibility know too well, as environments scale, so do the pieces to configure and the surface area to protect. Without a clear identity and access management system.