According to Gartner, by the end of 2014, IDaaS (Identity Management-as-a-Service) will account for 25 percent of all new IAM sales, compared to less than 5 percent in 2012. At the same time, the explosion of cloud-based apps is taking the enterprise by storm.<\/p>\n
In fact, OneLogin’s 2013 State of Cloud Application Access Study showed that 78 percent of respondents plan to increase the number of cloud apps in their organizations this year.<\/p>\n
As we reach this tipping point in cloud adoption, it\u2019s important for IT pros to ask the right questions of cloud identity management providers.<\/p>\n
-Is Active Directory integration batch or real-time?
\n-Is there a planned downtime or read-only mode for any portion of your IAM product during upgrades or maintenance windows?
\n-What set of pre-integrations does your IAM solution offer?
\n-How extensible is your IAM solution?
\n-Do you have access to user-provisioning with entitlements?
\n-How flexible is your IAM solution in terms of defining password constraints, session timeouts, IP address restrictions and enforcing Multi-Factor -Authentication, and can you apply these policies at the account level, to individual groups or to specific users?
\n-Are administrative roles and privileges fixed or flexible?
\n-Can you assign security policies to specific users independent of granting their access to their apps?
\n-What else can you do with Active Directory Groups besides simply grouping people and apps?
\n-How easy is it to define a logical structure for application access that doesn\u2019t correlate exactly with Active Directory Groups?
\n-How does your IAM solution increase worker productivity and\/or break down SaaS data silos?
\n-How quickly will you need to add additional applications to your system? Will your IAM solution require an extra charge?<\/p>\n