IAM products are installed into the organization to enable the user access control and protect the CIA triad that’s Confidentiality, Integrity, and Authentication. For any organization, the protection of data is its primary responsibility. That’s why IAM systems are installed to protect the data from outside intrusions.
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Silky Terrier Dog Breed Playing AroundA brief introduction of IAM
IAM is defined as Identify and Access Management, the objective of the system is to define and manage different roles in the organization by providing a digital identity to each device. The IAM system provides access privileges to devices to consume cloud and on-premises applications.
IAM not only provides digital identification to devices but it also used to monitor and manage user device access lifecycle. IAM enables administrator to change the roles of the users, track their activities and enable to provide reports of the activities.
The Role of IAM in Remote Jobs
After the pandemic, most of the businesses moved to remote activities, due to which digital identification become a serious concern. During pandemics the cybersecurity cases have increased worldwide, hackers penetrated into the system due to inadequate identification processes.
According to Gartner latest publication guide of IAM “the digital and physical economy is now dependent upon IAM infrastructure”
The demand for IAM infrastructure has increased worldwide. According to a survey conducted by PING identify most of the global executives showed confidence in IAM framework and considered it to be essential to maintain remote jobs and activities.
As compare to other products, IAM products are more secure they are based on Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA). The authentication process involves biometric, AI, and Machine learning risk-based models.
The Role of IAM in organization security
Traditionally the role of IAM was restricted to network security and defining and constructing the rules and policies for user identification and access. As time passes the domain of IAM increases, most of the attacks on the systems were due to the weak identification and authentication process.
The role of IAM stretched to other compliance areas. Due to IAM adaptive authentication and MFA tools, the organization was protected from external intrusions.
Challenges for IAM in the organization
Apart from all its benefits, the IAM system has some drawbacks or challenges that should be addressed in order to make it a more secure system. One of the biggest flaws of the system is that it has a weak internal protection system full access is provided to new employees, contractors, and partners that increase the probability that they could misuse their access. According to a survey conducted by Gartner, most of the attacks are due to internal personnel involvement either directly or indirectly.
The second challenge is SSO (Single Sign-On), the system should be carefully installed in the organization. The SSO should be closely monitored, and the system should be regularly updated.
The next challenge is the integration with multiple cloud infrastructures. They are many cloud infrastructures such as AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure the integration with cloud service remained a challenge for IAM users.
How to enable integration of IAM with cloud services
There are many ways through which we can integrate IAM with cloud services but the most used and authentic way is through SAML (Security Assertion Markup Language ) it helps to create trust between the organization and service provider.
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