How To Build An Effective IAM Architecture
Search Security, Friday, February 21st, 2025
Identity and access management is changing and so must strategies for managing it. Read up on IAM architecture approaches and how to select the best for your organization.
Identity and access management, or IAM -- the discipline of ensuring the right individuals have access to the right things at the right times -- sometimes falls into the category of things that are so foundational to enterprise security that we don't stop to think about them. Like many technologies that have reached a high level of maturity, IAM becomes plumbing; it goes unnoticed until there's a problem. That doesn't mean IT decision-makers should stop paying attention.
To devise the best IAM architecture for specific use cases, an organization must be clear about what it hopes to accomplish. Let's examine the key questions and decisions involved.