Oracle Magazine, July/August 2018
INTERVIEW ORACLE MAGAZINE JULY AUGUST 2018 24 because they can use what their users already have making it more convenient for the user and more efficient for the company The fourth thing thats driving enterprise identity is the type of threats that people are dealing with in the cloud Cloud threats are much faster and bigger and theyre happening at a different scale than before the cloud And the bad guys are not just looking to take the data the way they have in the past Theyre also trying to use your compute resources to do things like mining cryptocurrency which I would have never imagined 10 years ago but its a real problem today Oracle Magazine How is cloud changing the identity management conversation Olden The cloud is affecting identity management in two significant ways The first thing is that with the cloud you can move your apps as well as your data outside of the traditional firewall within your data center because youre now dealing with stuff thats physically out there in the cloud In the past we used to build fortresses around our data network defenses led to higher walls and deeper moats around the castle But with the cloud we are intentionally moving our data and apps outside this castle and beyond the protection of the network defenses And your users are out in the cloud as well Its very common with SaaS applications to have people accessing them from their mobile phones from anywhere in the world including a Starbucks or an internet access point in an airport This user location change has driven a new level of requirement around how we defend the perimeter if we dont have the classic perimeter defenses of firewalls and network defenses The approach of using a classic VPN virtual private network to gate access to apps and data that are outside the network is no longer enough when everything is all over the internet And that in turn is driving the idea that identity has become the new perimeter If you think about identities as the objects in relationships As more intelligent or autonomous cloud services roll out identity must evolve and become more intelligent as well
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