Doing access management with the help of cloud-based services is a pretty comfortable proposition by now. For over a decade, we’ve been doing federated single sign-on to and from apps that are themselves in external domains. Looking at the recent Forrester Wave™ on enterprise cloud identity and access management, all three vendors we identified as leaders specialize in various kinds of cloud-app SSO and access control — the cloud identity 1.0 ur-scenario. (Join us tomorrow, September 20, for a client webinar to review this Wave!)

What about identity management in the cloud? It’s been harder to find. Two other vendors we looked at in the Wave provide cloud interfaces to familiar on-premises provisioning solutions such as the IBM and Oracle suites. And all the vendors rely on hooking into an organization’s on-premises directory as the single source of truth.Cloud-Native Identity Management Is Suddenly Looking Like A Winner…