Identity at the Center Identity At The Center #11: Managing IAM in the Hybrid Cloud
Sep 13, 2019
Morgan McNamara, an engineer at Identropy with expertise in cloud migrations and IAM, dives into the complexities of managing identities across multi-cloud environments. He discusses why organizations adopt multi-cloud strategies and the challenges posed by mergers and acquisitions. Morgan emphasizes the importance of centralized identity management for visibility and control, sharing insights on strong authentication and secrets management. He also highlights the value of collaborating with development teams to successfully implement IAM practices.
AI Snips
Chapters
Transcript
Episode notes
Why Multi-Cloud Happens
- Companies land in multi-cloud for business, historical, or technical reasons rather than pure feature choice.
- Acquisitions, departmental choices, and use-case fit often force multi-cloud environments.
Perimeter Mentality Persists
- Some organizations resist full cloud migration to keep familiar perimeters like firewalls and VPNs.
- That resistance can drive fragmented cloud deployments and reestablished perimeters instead of centralization.
Lock Down Cloud Consoles First
- Protect cloud consoles with corporate SSO and enforce MFA for administrative access.
- Use PAM on top of SSO for stronger governance of privileged cloud access.