Modernize Legacy IAM
Increase operational efficiency and pave the way for Zero Trust architecture
Digital Transformation Can’t Wait
The global health crisis showed us how quickly business can transform. It also magnified the cracks in outdated identity and access management (IAM) systems. As technology projects were accelerated, the limitations of legacy IAM were impossible to ignore. When you modernize IAM, you gain the operational agility you need to unleash digital transformation, while paving the way for a future-proof Zero Trust architecture. With out-of-the-box migration tools, you can take identity to the cloud and consolidate IAM on your timeline.
Legacy IAM is Holding You Back
Many enterprises are stretching legacy IAM to its breaking point. From longer time to value for new applications and services to the substantial support and maintenance costs of infrastructure requirements, these systems can exhaust IT bandwidth and budgets.
- Lack of Vendor SupportRead the Blog
Vendors have stopped investing in older platforms, putting the burden on your team to build and maintain custom integrations. Adding salt to the wound, once a legacy offering reaches end of life (EOL), vendors typically increase support fees while you remain locked in. You’re also left without modern identity features like social login, custom attributes and developer-friendly APIs that enable differentiated digital experiences for customers.
- Higher Risks & Ownership CostsRead the Blog
Finding experts to work on legacy IAM products is diifficult and expensive. Even if you have the resources, upgrading legacy systems with codependent stack components is inherently risky. This leaves you vulnerable to the latest threats and attack vectors, and unable to deliver seamless experiences. At the same time, a lack of system maintenance can lead to costly downtime and lost productivity.
- Reduced Speed & AgilityRead the Blog
Legacy IAM products are inflexible and weren’t built to support the hybrid deployments most modern enterprises require. They can’t bridge between on-premises and cloud-based resources, which limits your deployment and infrastructure architecture options. Lacking support for identity standards and out-of-the-box integrations, you’re left dependent on custom coding for new apps, slowing down your digital business initiatives.
Identity: Before And After
Your Business Will Thank You
Modernizing legacy IAM delivers business value by helping you:
Improve employee experience
and productivity
Create an agile enterprise architecture
Enable faster rollouts of new
apps and services
Simplify IAM management
complexity
Reduce total cost of ownership
and vendor lock-in
Limit security risks from
vulnerable infrastructure
Respond to Your Business Faster
Access
Management
Legacy web access management (WAM) systems weren’t built to secure mobile/cloud apps and APIs. Since they lack open standard support and are nearing end of life, their total cost of ownership (TCO) is high. Ping addresses these challenges with standards-based central access management across on-premises and multi-cloud environments.
Multi-factor Authentication
Legacy multi-factor authentication (MFA) adds friction, can’t be implemented everywhere, lacks smart insights or context surrounding users and burdens your helpdesk. Ping tackles these pain points with adaptive MFA that intelligently steps up authentication in high-risk scenarios and delivers a diverse range of authentication methods and passwordless capabilities.
Modern
Directory
Legacy user directories lack support for modern apps and can't move to the cloud. Poor scalability, stability and latency lead to security risks and high TCO. Ping’s central identity store solves these problems and helps you keep up with the rapid growth of apps, attributes, devices, data and communications protocols.
Coexist, Migrate or Both. You Decide.
Over time, enterprises accumulate silos of multi-generational IAM tools and lack a single source of truth. Establishing a central authentication authority lets you assess which systems are foundational and which ones can be rationalized. Ping helps you avoid a rip and replace situation and instead chart a modernization course that ensures integration of key systems, including Microsoft Active Directory and Azure AD, and a phased, smooth transition off of legacy IAM technologies like Oracle and Siteminder.
Proven Path to Value
With Ping, you score quick wins with pre-built integration kits and a self-service portal that lets app teams do onboarding themselves. Our migration tools handle the rest with automated policy replication, bi-directional data synchronization and proxy-based legacy application migration.
Ping scored highest in ability to execute in Gartner’s 2020 Magic Quadrant for Access Management. Customers love Ping’s flexibility, ease of deployment and integration.
Soaring with
Modern IAM
Opportunity
Plagued by frequent outages, management complexity and expensive maintenance, a leading aerospace manufacturer needed to replace their Oracle directory. They needed a more flexible directory solution with the scale required to support their mobile apps and multi-cloud architecture.
Result
With PingDirectory, they now support mobile apps and cloud at scale with over 100 million entries stored and millisecond response times. Because they were able to deprecate hardware and make outages a thing of the past, they now enjoy a substantially lower cost of ownership and a directory that’s a whole lot easier to manage.
Take Identity to the Cloud
Shifting to the cloud is a priority for most enterprises. The PingOne Cloud Platform helps you get to the cloud faster. You can secure and control access to resources across all of your domains and platforms, from public and private clouds to legacy on-premises environments.
