IAM/IDaaS (Identity Access Management/Identity Authentication as a Service) usually represents a service or platform. The platform can identify an individual through user role or authority control, and then control its access to system resources and guard the data of individuals and organizations .
In other words, IDaaS is the identity and access management (IAM) of the cloud era, and the relationship between them is——
IDaaS=SaaS+IAM。
Companies that provide IDaaS can act as identity providers (IDP) or service providers (SP). Therefore, IDaaS can be understood as a service platform. Customers use products related to providing IDaaS services, such as single sign-on and smart multi-factor authentication, to achieve the secure and efficient identity and access management functions required in the cloud era.
The importance of identity management to enterprise security is mainly reflected in the following three levels:
1. A unified login system can significantly improve the efficiency of the enterprise
2. Users do not need to remember and maintain different user passwords
3. Protect the enterprise and its users from the risk of data leakage
With the advancement of digitization and cloud computing, the dimensions and boundaries of enterprise information security are becoming more and more three-dimensional and more complex. In terms of time, it is no longer 8 hours, but 7*24 365 days a year without stopping service , At the same time, there is no restriction on physical location.
The needs of enterprises are to protect identity security under various devices, platforms, and scenarios while making data easy to share. In the past few years, identity management concepts, such as multi-factor authentication (MFA), passwordless and single-source authentication, have come to the forefront of the times when solving identity management problems in modern distributed environments.
The development of IDaaS services abroad has been quite mature, including established companies such as Microsoft, CA, OraclePing Identity, and rising stars such as Okta, OneLogin, and Centrify.
Even in the recent access management (AM) Magic Quadrant defined by Gartner, or in the Identity Authentication as a Service (IDaaS) quadrant defined by Forrester, Okta has become an absolute leader in the market.
The domestic IDaaS service market has continued to move in recent years. Alibaba Cloud previously acquired identity authentication service provider Kyushu Yunteng, and then Authing received tens of millions of RMB in angel round financing, and in October 2020 Zhuyun Technology, which received a strategic investment of RMB 300 million.
Therefore, the development house will comprehensively evaluate the TOP20 list of domestic IDaaS companies in the field of cloud services on IAM from multiple dimensions for reference by relevant practitioners and followers. The list is as follows.
