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10 Modern Capabilities Legacy IAM Can't Deliver
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Compare legacy and modern IAM approaches to identify gaps and build the case for upgrading your identity infrastructure.
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Legacy vs. Modern IAM: What to Know

As identity becomes the front line of security and user experience, organizations are reevaluating outdated identity and access management (IAM) systems. This comparison guide highlights key differences between legacy IAM approaches and modern solutions. Use it to assess where your current identity provider (IdP) stands and identify opportunities to improve agility, security, and trust across your workforce, customer, B2B/partner, and emerging agentic AI identity experiences.

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Legacy IAM
Modern IAM (Ping Identity)
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On-premises only
Cloud-ready, hybrid, and multi-cloud support
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Siloed authentication systems
Unified access with centralized identity orchestration
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Manual provisioning
Automated lifecycle management with intelligent workflows
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Static passwords
Passwordless and multi-factor authentication (MFA) like biometrics, authenticators, and FIDO passkeys
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Poor UX
Seamless SSO and modern UX for employees, customers, partners, and AI agents across channels
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High IT Overhead
Low-code/no-code tools to empower IT and business users
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One-size-fits-all policies
Fine-grained, context-aware access and authorization policies driven by a runtime identity layer that continuously adapts to real-time risk
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Difficult third-party integration
Open standards and API-first identity services that work with any standards-based, homegrown IdP, app, and data source
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Hard-coded logic and brittle flows
Visual orchestration to flexibly connect identity, security, and fraud services across standards-based, homegrown IdPs, apps, and channels
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Lacking crucial verification capabilities
Verified Trust approach with reusable credentials, biometrics, and trusted data sources at key moments in the user journey

At Ping Identity, we make it possible to trust every digital moment across customers, employees, partners, and non-human identities. Whether you're securing millions of users, fighting fraud, simplifying third-party access, or going passwordless, establishing trust shouldn't slow you down. Our enterprise-grade identity platform is built for scale, speed, and flexibility and works seamlessly with your existing cloud, hybrid, and on-prem environments. We help you confidently embrace AI and automation with Runtime Identity, so you can continuously verify the identity, context, and intent of every AI agent and control their actions in real time. With Ping, all digital experiences start with trust. Learn more at pingidentity.com.

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