Identity system modernization held back by 'technical debt'

Modernizing identity systems is proving difficult for organizations due to two key challenges, decades of accumulated identity and access management (IAM) technical debt and the complexity of managing access across multiple identity providers (IDPs). A new report from Strata Identity and the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) finds incompatibility with non-standard, legacy applications is a barrier to deploying advanced application authentication for 71 percent of respondents, further highlighting the issue of technical debt with 54 percent of respondents citing it as their top hurdle when modernizing their IAM architecture. With two-thirds of organizations managing two or more IDPs, 65 percent of… [Continue Reading]