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By Dave Kearns

Cloud SSO is not sufficient: What else do you need?

Cloud-based identity services have come a long way in the past several years, make sure you’re keeping up with what’s available and what you need.
By Dave Kearns
dk@kuppingercole.com

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  1. Figure 1 Cloud IAM in conjunction with on-premise IAM

1 Recommendations

One common feature of Cloud-based IAM/IAG is Cloud Single Sign-On. Users can access all their Cloud services – and existing web applications that ru ...

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2 Analysis

Single SignOn (or, better, Simplified SignOn or SSO) was one of the early successes for cloud-based IAM (Identity and Access Management). There were, ...

Employees and contractors inside the enterprise would access the datacenter directly or through web-based portals. But they would also go beyond, to t ...

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3 Summary

Identity and Access Management (IAM) has come a long way in the past 15 to20 years. But now it’s time to take IAM and its partner Identity and Acces ...

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