The complexity of defining standard guidance
The complexity of defining guidance and blueprints for authentication is increasing year after year for various reasons:
- Increasing cloud adoption is leading big companies to take up a hybrid cloud model. The cloud is nothing more and nothing less than a data center, where the company can store cloud-native assets that need to co-exist with legacy applications. These cloud models are creating new authentication requirements for communication across data centers and cloud providers.
- The proliferation of APIs inside these big companies is creating new management needs and authentication requirements.
- The increase in software development speed, thanks to Agile practices and Platform as a Service (PaaS) cloud services, is creating more applications in less time, which is increasing the management footprint of a company much more quickly than before.
- The nature of cloud-native, serverless, and distributed applications requires...