Hey, it's Vince with JumpCloud. Welcome
to another episode of our "What Is?" video series.
In this episode, we'll be talking
about Identity and Access Management (IAM).
So what is Identity and Access Management?
Identity and Access Management refers to
the ability to manage user identities
and their access to IT resources such as
systems, applications, files, and networks.
IAM solutions have been a critical
aspect of IT infrastructure for many
years now as they help to make work happen.
However, many IT admins have come
to discover that traditional IAM
solutions are struggling to manage the
complexity of modern networks. As a
result, IT organizations are now looking
for new approaches to Identity and
Access Management. Historically, the most popular IAM platform has been Microsoft®
Active Directory® (AD). Active Directory is an on-prem IAM platform that was designed
for on-prem, Windows-based environments.
When AD was introduced in 1999, most IT
networks were on-prem and Windows-based. Windows has remained the most popular
enterprise operating system ever since.
So it's no surprise that ad is now
ubiquitous. However, IT networks started to change as Mac systems, Linux servers, web applications,
alternative storage
solutions, Google Apps™, AWS®, and the Cloud
came to market in the mid-2000s.
Solutions such as these weren't
Windows-based, nor were they on-prem.
Consequently, Active Directory
implementations began to struggle and
have been ever since.
Of course, IT organizations could patch
Active Directory with third-party
add-ons such as identity bridges, web
applications single sign-on, privileged
Identity Management, and more to mitigate some of these traditional challenges.
The trouble with this approach, however, is that it adds significant cost and
complexity–not to mention that modern IT
organizations would rather shift their
identity management infrastructure to
the cloud. The good news is that a
next-generation cloud IAM platform
has come to market that is
effectively Active Directory reimagined
for modern networks. It's called JumpCloud Directory-as-a-Service® and it has
the power to manage virtually any IT
resource, without the help of costly
third-party add-ons and without anything
on-prem. Contact JumpCloud to learn how
the Directory-as-a-Service platform can
manage user identities and securely
connect them to their systems,
applications, files, and networks,
regardless of the platform, provider,
protocol, or location. You can also sign
up for a free account, schedule a demo, or
continue watching to discover everything
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