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Identity as a service (IDaaS)

Identity as a service (IDaaS)

From the course: ISC2 Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) (2024) Cert Prep

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Identity as a service (IDaaS)

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- [Narrator] Many organizations are turning to cloud-based services to meet a variety of their business and technology needs. Identity and access management is an emerging area where enterprises are gaining significant benefits by using third party providers. Identity as a service or IDaaS providers allow organizations to move some or all of their identity and access management infrastructure to the cloud, reducing the need for employing costly and hard to find identity and access management specialists. Identity as a service began by offering simple single sign-on services for web-based software as a service products used by an organization. These services integrate with two different types of platform to help organizations improve their identity and access management infrastructure. First, they integrate with an organization's existing directory service to obtain the details of what users exist in an organization and their identity attributes. This information is synchronized in…

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