{"id":7049,"date":"2022-05-27T00:23:48","date_gmt":"2022-05-27T07:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.strata.io\/?p=7049"},"modified":"2024-04-09T11:42:22","modified_gmt":"2024-04-09T18:42:22","slug":"state-of-multi-cloud-identity-report-2022-top-iam-challenges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.strata.io\/blog\/identity-access-management\/state-of-multi-cloud-identity-report-2022-top-iam-challenges\/","title":{"rendered":"Strata\u2019s State of Multi-Cloud Identity report reveals 2022\u2019s top IAM challenges for enterprises"},"content":{"rendered":"
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”7058″ img_size=”full”][vc_column_text]With a cloud-first approach gaining momentum, a growing number of applications are being hosted across <\/span>multiple cloud platforms <\/span><\/a>(AWS, Azure, GCP, etc.)<\/span>. At the same time, many apps are still protected by a legacy identity system (such as SiteMinder, Oracle, etc.) and only a small number of enterprises plan to move off on-premises systems entirely \u2014 which means a combination of hybrid and multi-cloud for the foreseeable future.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Since each cloud and on-premises system has its own built-in identity system, multi-cloud and hybrid cloud environments create a tangled web of siloed identities that put organizations at risk. And further away from the goal of reaching Zero Trust.<\/p>\n Strata\u2019s latest report on the State of Multi-cloud Identity reveals 2022\u2019s top IAM challenges for enterprises and opportunities for multi-cloud acceleration. Conducted by Osterman Research on behalf of Strata, the report provides new data on the growing trends and increasing difficulties that enterprise organizations are facing as they move to the cloud and try to manage identity in multiple clouds. It also points to the solutions that offer the most promise.<\/span><\/p>\n Here are some of the data points from the report that reveal the top challenges in multi-cloud identity today for enterprises.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Multi-cloud adoption has exploded. As multi-cloud strategies become ingrained, a growing number of identities are being scattered across silos. As a result, it\u2019s becoming more difficult to secure distributed identities with modern authentication approaches. For example:<\/span><\/p>\n The State of Multi-Cloud Identity Report reveals more data and sheds light on the implications for enterprise companies moving to multi-cloud in 2022.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n A user\u2019s identity is the foundation of providing secure access to your company\u2019s data and applications. If you\u2019re like many enterprises, you\u2019re already struggling to figure out how to ensure consistent user identities as you move more and more of your applications to the cloud. The hindrances to multi-cloud identity are real and significant.<\/span><\/p>\n Findings include:<\/span><\/p>\n Current identity and access management standards only partially solve the challenges with multi-cloud identity. Enterprises indicate that their full requirements are unsupported by these standards because they were not built to support the specific needs of multi-cloud identity.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The adoption of multi-cloud has emphasized the challenges with current identity and access management approaches. The 2022 State of Multi-Cloud Identity report shows how enterprises are modernizing identity for their growing multi-cloud environment.<\/span><\/p>\n Key highlights:<\/span><\/p>\n The full Strata report provides deeper analysis, including the priority of <\/span>adopting a Zero Trust architecture<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n Enterprises are acknowledging the consequences of having siloed identities as a result of using multiple clouds \u2014 even while they accelerate their adoption of multi-cloud identities.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n To cope with these identity obstacles, enterprises are hiring identity architects and engineers to manually create and maintain consistent identities and access policies across multi-cloud deployments. This approach comes with high costs, both in the short term (labor costs) and in the long term (opportunity costs).<\/span><\/p>\n Strata\u2019s report reveals that enterprises place a high value on a set of multi-cloud outcomes:<\/span><\/p>\n Each of these outcomes offers important strategic value to enterprises, but the resource-heaviness of current solutions places those outcomes at risk. <\/span>Identity Orchestration<\/span><\/a> may provide a better approach to today\u2019s multi-cloud identity challenges.<\/span><\/p>\n Current identity standards and technologies for multi-cloud policy management are failing to live up to the actual demands of multi-cloud. Enterprises are left with few options, besides hiring expensive identity architects to fill the gap. Strata\u2019s latest report on multi-cloud identity management sheds light on the situation and offers alternative solutions that could be appealing to enterprise companies.<\/span><\/p>\n What you\u2019ll learn from this report:<\/span><\/p>\n Get all the data and insights of 2022\u2019s top IAM challenges in the full report:<\/p>\n2023 State of Multi-Cloud Identity Report<\/strong><\/h3>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t
Top data points from Strata’s 2022 Multi-Cloud Identity Report<\/h2>\n
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Legacy tech debt and outdated IAM practices are big problems for multi-cloud<\/h2>\n
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Modernizing identity for multi-cloud is a high priority<\/h2>\n
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Identity Orchestration helps achieve Zero Trust<\/h2>\n
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2022\u2019s top IAM challenges for enterprises<\/h2>\n
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