What to Consider Before Choosing Your IAM Deployment Option

Ping Identity is interested in the best IAM deployment solution for you. 

If you’re already undergoing a digital transformation, you may need some guidance on where and how to deploy your IAM strategy. If you haven’t even considered working with a cloud provider on IAM, that’s ok too. No matter your situation, Ping will help you choose an IAM strategy that solves current pain points while also leaving the door open for future growth. 

With our PingOne Cloud platform, you have your choice of IAM deployment options. In fact, Ping can help no matter where you are on your digital transformation journey–regardless of your current IT environment. We offer IAM solutions that work across on-premise, hybrid, multi-cloud, multi-generational, or cloud platforms. 

To help streamline the process of choosing an IAM deployment option, Ping put together some simple steps for you to follow. 

In order to pick a suitable IAM deployment solution, you first need to identify your pain points. For many operations, it can be difficult to zoom out and see where the issues really lie. Yet, until you know what you’re up against, it won’t be easy to find a suitable IAM deployment option. 

Let’s start by looking at some of the most common pain points for identity management:

• There are different legacy identity and data storage deployments across your company. In turn, this has led to redundant tools, a lack of consistent best practices, and disjointed end-user experiences. 

• Your identity teams face a greater volume of access control requests and use cases than ever before. This is too much to manage on top of on-premises infrastructure, security, and upgrades. 

• The current identity solutions at your operation aren’t scalable. Legacy, homegrown, and on-premise data centers give you control but cannot scale to meet new business, security, and user experience requirements.

• Your current IAM solution lacks support for out-of-the-box integrations and seamless automation. This means you have to use custom coding for any changes or updates–requiring additional heavy workloads that eat up IT resources. 
   

If any of these problems strike a chord, then it may be time to reassess your IAM practices. Moreover, you might have to consider speeding up your digital transformation by moving to a cloud infrastructure. 

But what if you’re not quite ready to invest in cloud computing yet?

Ping often runs into clients that are ready for a new IAM approach but still have some apprehensions about diving into cloud deployment. That’s ok too. 

If you are unsure about the next steps in your digital transformation, we hear you. You shouldn’t have to overextend yourself to make IAM a priority in your operation. That’s why PingOne is compatible with a variety of IAM deployment options–from public clouds to on-premise servers.

At Ping Identity, we know how important it is to find IAM solutions that are fast, scalable, and flexible. Even more, we believe you should be able to deploy IAM solutions in any environment.

Whether you are running on a legacy system or working with the latest cloud service providers, your chosen IAM solution should do the following:

• Modernize your identity infrastructure to unify your users and authentication policies with a centralized directory. This authentication authority will eliminate errors and inefficiencies. 
   

• Free up more time for your employees to tackle value-added projects by migrating your IAM from on-premise solutions to a managed cloud infrastructure. 
   

• Deploy best-in-class customer identity on a schedule that minimizes risk for your operation. Use flexible deployment models that include SaaS, multi-cloud, and hybrid-cloud approaches.
   

• Support open identity standards with pre-built integration kits, a self-service app portal, and a no-code visual orchestration platform.
   

• Utilize the latest identification verification methods like multi-factor authentication (MFA), single sign-on (SSO), passwordless, and adaptive authentication.

Needless to say, it’s important that the IAM solution you choose has all the capabilities you require. Once you know what you need from an identity platform, you should consider whether you can get everything done within your current infrastructure.

Knowing where you stand in your digital transformation journey is something you want to consider before choosing an IAM deployment option.

If you decide that migrating to the cloud is your best option, you don’t have to do everything overnight. Whether you have an on-prem, hybrid-cloud, multi-cloud, or multi-generational infrastructure, your legacy system shouldn’t stop you from having the best possible identity security.

No matter where you are in your digital transformation journey, Ping Identity will find a solution that works for you. For many operations, this means actively prioritizing your IAM solutions while letting Ping handle much of the heavy lifting on the back end. In fact, we have worked with many companies that want to hammer out the details with IAM before shifting focus to cloud strategy.

Whether you decide to begin with cloud migration or an IAM strategy, Ping Identity will give you the support needed to streamline your transition without any downtime. 

Another important consideration to make when choosing a deployment option is the level of control you want over IAM. For example, some organizations may want total control of their network, while others want a cloud security provider like Ping Identity to handle IAM in its entirety. 

We Manage  

With this option, Ping Identity shoulders all the responsibility of overseeing your infrastructure while still giving you the control you desire. With the PingOne Cloud, you get all the upgrade timing and scale performance you need, without burdening your IT team with extra work.

When Ping Identity manages your entire IAM ecosystem, we handle IAM deployment and get you migrated to the cloud with zero downtime. Once your IAM is fully migrated to the PingOne Cloud, you will have the latest identity technologies behind your brand–including MFA, SSO, passwordless, and adaptive authentication.

You Manage 

With self-managed IAM, you are responsible for overseeing your entire identity management system. No matter if you opt for an on-premise, cloud, or hybrid network, you are responsible for deploying, maintaining, and upgrading software.

Ping has many clients in highly regulated industries that must control their own data storage to stay compliant. If you are required to follow the self-managed IAM route, Ping has you covered with flexible deployment options for any IT environment. 

Partner-Managed 

When you use partner-managed IAM, a third party oversees your systems infrastructure to keep your data, applications, and servers secure. Ping Identity is partnered with several great managed service companies, such as Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS).

If you opt to partner with a cloud platform like AWS, Ping will work with all parties involved to get your IAM deployed quickly and efficiently. Since all of our partners are experienced with Ping products, you can trust that you will be in good hands. 

If you prioritize IAM in your organization, you can turn identity solutions into a competitive advantage in the marketplace. To adequately address IAM pain points, you also need to consider how outdated identity management practices might impact user experiences with your digital properties.

For many organizations, a new IAM strategy often means accelerating their digital transformation by embracing cloud solutions. At Ping, we realize that a sudden move to cloud identity solutions could add another layer to an already complex situation. Luckily, we offer IAM solutions for just about every possible need.

With the PingOne Cloud platform, you have your choice of IAM deployment options–including we manage, you manage, and partner-managed. Whatever your choice of IAM deployment, Ping will ensure you don’t experience any downtime, while also optimizing digital experiences for your customers. Learn more about PingOne Cloud Platform deployment options on our website, and read this brief about PingOne Cloud Platform deployment options for even more detail.