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Executive View
By Richard Hill

ViewDS Cobalt

ViewDS Cobalt is a cloud-architected identity platform flexible enough to support on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments. With all aspects of the platform management fully accessible via APIs, Cobalt is uniquely positioned to support the automation and integration requirements of today’s modern IT environment.
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Content of Figures

  1. Figure 1 ViewDS Cobalt Architectural Overview (Source: ViewDS)

1 Introduction

Historically, Identity and Access Management (IAM) solutions were developed to address the business needs of IT environments running within the walls ...

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2 Product Description

ViewDS Cobalt platform is a fully multi-tenant Identity solution. The Cobalt platform has a well-rounded set of capabilities that include directory se ...

Roadmap
ViewDS roadmap intends to support FIDO, WebAuth, and particular IoT scenarios in the near future. Also included on their roadmap is integrate ...

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3 Strengths and Challenges

ViewDS Cobalt provides a flexible set of IAM capabilities within their identity platform. Although they don’t exactly fit into the typical IDaaS mar ...

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4 Related Research

Leadership Compass: Dynamic Authorization Management - 70966
Leadership Compass: Identity as a Service: Single Sign-On to the Cloud (IDaaS SSO) - 71141
Leadership Compass: Identity as a Service: Cloud-based Provisioning, Access Governance and Federation (IDaaS B2E) – 70319

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