The cloud is fueling an explosion of secure new services, but not every company is equally able to tap into this trend. While identity as a service (IDaaS) and the cloud are changing the game for small and medium businesses, the sheer scale and complexity of the Fortune 1000 enterprise makes it difficult for these long-established companies to reach beyond their borders securely and completely. Their customer bases may cover the globe, but their underlying infrastructures are so complicated — and their need for security so paramount — that such companies don’t have the agility to navigate into the new services stratosphere.
While smaller organizations can easily outsource their identity infrastructure, why is it so much more difficult for larger companies to reach the cloud? Today’s sizable enterprises are facing two diverging trends when it comes to applications and security. First, they are charged with securing more users who are accessing more applications from more places through more devices than ever before. Second, the number of identity data sources and the diversity of representations — LDAP, AD, SQL, APIs — are growing at the same rate, which is to say, exponentially.
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