As organizations embrace cloud technologies and construct hybrid multicloud architectures, they encounter both opportunities and challenges. The convergence of functional and nonfunctional business needs introduces complexity, while heightened security risks and stringent regulatory requirements demand robust solutions. Enterprises recognize that security is no longer an afterthought. It must be designed from the outset. Safeguarding sensitive data and ensuring compliance are paramount.
In this dynamic landscape, businesses seek architecture options that seamlessly support the adoption of the newer technologies. Cloud adoption, containerization, and microservices architectures offer immense potential. Drawing from its extensive innovations in identity and access management (IAM), Oracle has crafted solutions that align with these business priorities.
Figure 1 shows the three key components of Oracle’s enterprise IAM suite, which have traditionally been deployed on-premises: Oracle Directory Services, Oracle Access Management, and Oracle Identity Governance.
Oracle Directory Services are a set of identity management products that provide centralized management of user and application identities, authentication, and authorization. They provide a centralized repository for storing and managing user identities, credentials, and attributes. Oracle Unified Directory is the directory service that provides high-performance, highly available, and secure storage for identities and access information.
Oracle Access Management is a web access management solution that provides authentication and authorization for web-based applications. It enables organizations to secure their web applications and resources by enforcing access control policies that determine who can access what resources and under what conditions.
Oracle Identity Governance provides a centralized platform for identity governance and administration. Identity Governance automates and streamlines the process of managing identities, including the creation, modification, and removal of user accounts, and the assignment and revocation of access privileges.
Oracle’s approach encompasses the technological and strategic modernization of its existing product portfolio and introduces new cloud native services that support its customers’ business objectives.
Figure 2 describes the following paths to modernizing identity and access management:
Figure 3 depicts the complete portfolio of Oracle IAM solutions, including IAM software and cloud native SaaS. Oracle customers can enjoy flexibility in the path they may choose to achieve an ideal target architecture based on their current architecture, and business drivers. Oracle’s cloud native IAM SaaS products include OCI IAM and Oracle Access Governance. OCI IAM encompasses a suite of identity and access management features, such as authentication, single sign-on (SSO), and identity lifecycle management. Oracle Access Governance is a cloud native IGA solution that provides insights-based access reviews, analytics, and identity intelligence capabilities.
As customers modernize their Oracle IAM solution to address evolving threat landscapes and increased compliance requirements, you can expect flexible options and prescriptive guidance from Oracle. Oracle has released training content to help you embark on your modernization journeys with Oracle. These courses are available as part of the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Learning subscription, which is currently free to customers and partners.
Learn more about each course and participate:
Journey 1: Deploying Oracle Identity and Access Management software as virtual machines (VMs) in OCI
Journey 2: Deploying Containerized Oracle Identity and Access Management on OCI
Journey 3: Deploying Oracle Identity and Access Management Microservices
Journey 4: Introduction to Oracle Access Governance
Anbu has published a number of articles/whitepapers in leading technical magazines and has presented in several conferences including Oracle OpenWorld. He is also one of the primary authors of IT Strategies from Oracle (ITSO) and Oracle Reference Architecture (ORA) which includes Oracle Cloud Reference Architecture. Anbu has been with Oracle since 1999, working in various groups including Sustaining Engineering, Consulting, Solution Architecture, Enterprise Architecture, and Product Marketing.
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