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Cloud Identity and Access Management

Enterprises need a seamless way to provide access for their users to applications and resources on multiple clouds. Identity and Access Management (IAM) is the core component for managing identity across a hybrid cloud. This has two important considerations to manage and solve:

  • How to manage identity and access for users to cloud resources, services, and platforms, which is typically referred to as Cloud IAM.
  • How to manage identity and access for users for cloud applications, often referred to as IAM for cloud applications

IAM deals with identifying a user and cloud resources and managing access to these resources for the user, based on policies. IAM provides fine-grained access control to cloud resources ...

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