In the wave of digitalization, identity management has become a key element in the digital transformation of various industries. Establishing an efficient identity governance center can not only effectively guarantee enterprise information security and data security, but also improve the degree of digitalization of enterprises.
However, building identity management is not an easy task. When an enterprise builds a middle platform for identity governance, it will face some difficulties and challenges no matter whether it chooses independent research and development or purchases from external suppliers.
The first is the cost of self-study. Although identity management is not the core business of the enterprise, it is connected to multiple business systems of the enterprise. Therefore, when the enterprise conducts independent research and development, it needs to call core developers to invest in the development project. Subsequent personnel maintenance is required, resulting in the continuous expenditure of a large amount of manpower and material resources by the enterprise.
The second is the difficulty of building an ecosystem. Today's identity management is not limited to a single system or application level. It not only needs to connect all application systems within the enterprise, but also needs to establish related links with external applications. This external connection involves multiple fields such as finance, education, and medical care, and requires in-depth integration and communication between enterprises and multiple applications to form an ecosystem. For enterprises, the establishment of an ecosystem is not a simple matter that can be accomplished on their own.
Finally, there is the issue of outsourced benefits. Most of the current external identity management system suppliers are outsourcing vendors, and they only provide solutions for the current needs of enterprises. Therefore, the identity management systems outsourced by enterprises often cannot provide agile and efficient solutions when faced with the new needs of business development. plan. This will not only keep the cost of the company's follow-up investment high, but also limit the business competitiveness of the company to a certain extent.
In order to fundamentally solve these problems and help enterprises build an efficient and stable identity governance center, the developer-centric PaaS approach has gradually become the preferred solution in the identity field.
The developer-centric PaaS-based identity governance platform has two main features: flexibility and scalability. The identity management system purchased by the enterprise is a general and standardized form, which is difficult to adapt to the individual scenario needs of the enterprise. The flexibility of PaaS can precisely meet the needs of individual customization of enterprises.
In addition, the enterprise's identity management platform is not a pure business system, but an infrastructure for the digital transformation of enterprises, which requires a high degree of digital capabilities. The developer-centric PaaS approach provides rich APIs and mature SDKs for easy and fast integration with external systems, enabling the enterprise governance center to better adapt to the needs of digital transformation.
PaaS is a cloud computing service model that allows developers to quickly develop, deploy, manage, and expand applications without caring about the underlying infrastructure. Compared with the traditional software delivery model, the PaaS-based delivery model has many advantages:
- Reduce costs: The traditional software delivery model needs to purchase hardware devices, configure and maintain servers, etc., but PaaS is based on cloud infrastructure, and users do not need to pay attention to infrastructure and equipment costs. In the PaaS mode, users only need to pay for usage and resource consumption on demand, which reduces input costs and operating costs.
- Strong scalability: Traditional standard software systems or customized products require high initial investment costs, and one-time payment for all functions. In the PaaS mode, enterprises can choose and combine the required atomic functions like building blocks according to business development changes, and only pay for the required functions.
- Simplified deployment and management: The traditional software deployment process is complicated and requires manual installation, configuration, and management of multiple components, involving servers, databases, and networks. In contrast, PaaS simplifies the software deployment and management process by providing pre-configured infrastructure and automated management tools, enabling users to focus more on business logic development.
- Developer-friendliness: In traditional software upgrades, developers need to build the entire product from scratch. In the PaaS mode, you only need to select the appropriate components and services according to the needs, and perform simple secondary development on the core components to achieve rapid upgrades and iterations and improve development efficiency.
With the support of stable cloud computing infrastructure and powerful computing capabilities, enterprises use the PaaS model to build identity governance platforms, which can effectively reduce costs, improve development efficiency, and allow developers to manage and maintain identity management systems more conveniently.
At present, Authing Identity Cloud is the only identity cloud product that implements PaaS in the domestic identity field, and it is also the only solution for enterprises to build an efficient and stable identity governance platform.
Authing identity cloud product architecture
Through the PaaS approach of core components, Authing Identity Cloud encapsulates dozens of product functions around the whole scene of the identity field into Authing identity authentication platform, Authing identity security platform, and Authing infrastructure platform. In this way, enterprises can flexibly choose the required capability components and build an identity governance platform that meets their needs. It not only helps enterprises avoid the problems of high cost and low development efficiency in self-developed identity governance, but also flexibly expands and quickly responds to the needs of enterprise business development.
Authing Identity Cloud makes it easier for developers to integrate and extend identity management-related functions. By using API and SDK, developers can flexibly add personalized functions and services such as single sign-on (SSO) or multi-factor authentication (MFA) to the identity governance platform to quickly meet business needs.
Moreover, the PaaS-based Authing identity cloud can also help enterprises reduce usage costs. When building an identity center, an enterprise only needs to purchase the required capability components, and does not need to pay for all functions and services. While improving business efficiency, it further reduces the use cost of the enterprise, and effectively achieves the effect of cost reduction and efficiency increase.
The digital transformation of a company in the financial field has been in a leading position in the industry, and a unified identity management platform has been established within the company. However, with the development of digital technology, the original unified identity management platform within the enterprise can no longer meet the requirements of financial industry supervision on identity security, risk control, and compliance.
In particular, there are 1,000+ applications in the enterprise, and each application has different security policies and requirements. The original unified identity management platform within the enterprise cannot achieve unified management and centralized control, and does not have the original unified management platform for risk control capabilities. Identity management platforms also cannot provide multi-dimensional security.
In this context, based on the Authing identity cloudA PaaS-based identity security platform, the company has created a risk control center that provides unified security policy management. The security and authority control system built around the identity supply in the risk control center helps enterprises complete multi-dimensional security guarantees such as self-adaptive multi-factor authentication (CAMFA), dynamic authorization, data leakage prevention, and password explosion prevention.
The enterprise's risk control center based on the Authing identity cloud PaaS not only saves the high cost of independent research and development and avoids the inapplicability of standardized solutions, but also allows the core applications of the enterprise to have their own identity verification mechanism. Achieved financial regulatory compliance and security.