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By Paul Fisher

Google's Cloud Identity

Identity as a Service (IDaaS) is fast becoming the new face of Identity and Access Management (IAM) with several vendors now delivering cloud based IAM services to support the growth in cloud-based applications in the enterprise. Google’s Cloud Identity provides access to many popular cloud applications and offers some endpoint management features.
By Paul Fisher
pf@kuppingercole.com

Content of Figures

  1. Figure 1 IDaaS Capabilities Classification

1 Introduction

IDaaS is one of the fastest growing market segments of IAM characterized by cloud-based delivery of traditional IAM services. The market, driven large ...

Identity Administration: This represents the group of capabilities required by organizations to administer identity lifecycle events including provis ...

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2 Product Description

Google’s Cloud Identity is an IDaaS solution with its eye very firmly on those organizations already signed up to its G Suite and Google Cloud offer ...

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3 Strengths and Challenges

Basing an IDaaS service on Google’s internal Zero Trust architecture, BeyondCorp, with its sensible focus on identity is undoubtedly a good thing. T ...

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4 Related Research

Advisory Note: Future of Identity Management – 71303
Leadership Compass: Identity as a Service (IDaaS) IGA - 80051
Leadership Compass: Access Management and Federation - 71147
Leadership Compass: Access Governance & Intelligence - 71145
Whitepaper: Why Modern Enterprise IAM Must Be Rearchitected: Build Your Case for Containerized IAM and IDaaS - 80044

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