Question

compare and contrast the differences between IDaaS, IaaS and IAM

need around 600-700 words

Answer 1

IAM defines and manages the roles and access privileges of network users and the cases in which users are granted or denied them. The primary purpose of IAM systems is one digital identity per individual. The established digital identity is then maintained, modified, and monitored throughout users' access lifecycles.

IAM has the following four components:

• Authentication: A user provides credentials to gain initial access to an application or a particular resource. Upon user authentication, a session is created and referred during the interaction between user and application until the user logs off or session terminates.
• Authorization: It is performed by checking the resource access request against authorization policies that are stored in an IAM policy store. It is the core area that implements the access controls based on data, including user attributes, user roles, business rules, etc.
• User Management: It comprises Role Management, User Profile Management, User Activity Monitoring, User Provisioning, and deprovisioning.
• Central User Repository: It stores and delivers identity information to other services. It usually comes with a data synchronization service to keep the data in synchronization with other identity sources.

IDaaS is an authentication infrastructure that is built, hosted, and managed by a third-party service provider. IDaaS companies supply cloud-based authentication or identity management to enterprises who subscribe. It allows enterprises to use single sign-on, authentication, and access controls to provide secure access to their growing number of software and SaaS applications.

The following are the critical features of IDaaS:

• Cloud-Based and Multitenant Architecture: To support the immediate issuing of updates, security fixes, and performance improvements to every enterprise customer.
• Provisioning: To sync user data with web and enterprise applications through SCIM (system for cross-domain identity management) support and integration with on-premises provisioning.
• Authentication: To incorporate necessary means of authentication such as multi-factor authentication via passwords, digital access cards, or biometrics.

• Single Sign-On (SSO) and Federation: SSO capability to allow users to authenticate themselves across multiple applications using the same credentials.

  Similarly, the federation capability allows the organizations to manage secure authentication for third-party cloud services accessed beyond the control of internal IT departments.

• Directory Service: To integrate IDaaS with enterprise existing user stores or a cloud directory.
• Intelligence: To facilitate identity access log monitoring and reporting

Identity and Access Management (IAM) refers to the overall category of identity management solutions that are used to manage digital user identities and access to various IT resources. The IAM space is a broad category that includes the core identity provider (IdP), also known as directory services, as well as many subcategories such as directory extensions, web application single sign-on (SSO/IDaaS), privileged identity/access management (PIM/PAM), two-factor authentication (2FA/MFA), and more.

Essentially, IAM solutions are in the business of securely managing and connecting users to the IT resources they need to Make Work Happen™. The challenge for IT organizations is finding the best IAM solution to meet their specific requirements. And with such a huge variety of IAM solutions currently available, this is often easier said than done

Interestingly, however, the IAM space has continued to evolve through the years as more of IT infrastructure moves to the cloud. Today, next generation IDaaS platforms are emerging from the cloud that can consolidate what was once a patchwork of siloed identity management solutions into a comprehensive cloud IdP. The JumpCloud® Directory-as-a-Service® (DaaS) platform is a great example, which can securely manage and connect users to virtually any IT resource, without anything on-prem and without the help of third-party add-ons. Think of it like True Single Sign-On™. The DaaS platform accomplishes this in part by leveraging secure protocols such as LDAP, SAML, RADIUS, SSH, and REST working in concert with the JumpCloud system agent. As a result, IT organizations can leverage a single IAM solution to manage the complexity of modern networks.