Migrating from legacy IAM to modern Access Management: Guidelines and Best Practices - White Paper

Businesses are facing increased needs and challenges for managing access and authentication to cloud applications while ensuring employees can securely work from home. Legacy on-premises IAM solutions such as enterprise Single-Sign On (SSO), Virtual Private Network (VPN) or a Web Access Management (WAM) are based on the concept of securing the network perimeter and may limit organizations’ ability to enable their employees to securely and efficiently access cloud services. As such, organizations that rely on perimeter on-premises security to protect cloud services are liable to face limitations in their ability to scale effectively and securely in the cloud.