Meeting You Where You Are and Where You’re Going: Flexible IAM Deployment Options

It's no secret that more organizations around the world are undergoing some form of digital transformation. In turn, finding an identity and access management (IAM) solution that measures up to today’s open identity standards is a key part of this process. This means locating a resilient IAM solution that fits your current infrastructure while also being flexible enough to pivot with your digital transformation.

While the need for the right IAM solution is clear, that doesn’t necessarily change your company’s current situation. What about where you are right now?

No matter the size and scope of your organization, a digital transformation doesn’t happen overnight. It could be the case you are apprehensive about deploying a brand-new IAM solution while in the midst of a digital transformation or cloud migration. Or, perhaps you still rely on on-premise systems and need to find a flexible IAM deployment option to account for your legacy network. 

With the PingOne Cloud platform, you can take advantage of flexible IAM deployment options that work in any environment, including on-prem, cloud-native, cloud-based, and hybrid.

Cloud migration is probably the most important factor in the digital transformation of today. Though there are many factors that might push an organization to migrate from on-prem systems to cloud-based services, IAM is a major motivator.

Many operations still rely on proprietary IAM systems that were not built to support hybrid IT environments or open identity standards. Since these legacy identity management systems are becoming quickly outdated, they are expensive to maintain with custom code development.

If you are still reliant on a legacy identity platform, you are likely searching for a flexible deployment option that can work in your current environment. More often than not, this means speeding up your digital transformation by onboarding some form of hybrid or cloud services for IAM.

Providing users with a frictionless and secure digital experience is critical in industries as diverse as finance and healthcare. However, before you can improve the user experience (UX) with IAM, you need to choose your deployment method. Luckily, Ping Identity’s deployment options let you architect to fit any IT environment, including hybrid and multi-cloud. 

Flexible IAM deployment means that an IAM solution is compatible with any infrastructure. Whether you have on-premises, hybrid, multi-cloud, multi-generational, or cloud-first systems, flexible deployment will ensure your identity management needs are met.

While many cloud security providers offer IAM solutions, rarely can they meet the flexibility and scalability requirements of enterprise-size organizations. More often than not, IAM deployment is pigeonholed in either cloud services or legacy systems. In either case, a lack of flexibility in IAM deployment keeps your operation from getting up-to-speed with your digital transformation.

Thankfully, Ping Identity offers flexible IAM deployment options to meet every business need. Regardless of the IT environment you are working with, you don’t have to compromise quality, cost, time, or security to get the IAM solutions you require. Ping offers deployment options that fit any enterprise architecture:

• We Manage

• You Manage 

• Partner Managed 

No matter where you are in your digital transformation journey, we will meet you where you are, or help you get to where you want to go. 

Features of Flexible IAM Deployment:

Flexible IAM deployment from Ping is predicated on the notion that no two deployment scenarios are exactly the same. To meet the rigorous standards of enterprise-sized organizations, flexible IAM deployment should include some key capabilities:

• Scalable

• Cost-effective

• Compliant

• 99.99% uptime

• Fast time-to-value

• Flexible options over IAM control

• Robust partner network

With flexible deployment from Ping Identity, you can take your time when making important decisions about IAM. For example, you can weigh your options about a cloud migration without feeling pressured to make the switch before you are ready. At Ping, we want you to consider your budget and choices before embarking on a new IAM strategy.

Here’s how flexible IAM deployment from Ping Identity works:

1. Identify Your Current IAM Challenges

The first step in choosing an IAM deployment option from Ping is figuring out your most pressing needs. Because Ping’s IAM solutions can be deployed in any environment, starting here will help determine which option is right for you. 

Let’s start by looking at some common IAM pain points:

• There are different legacy identity and data store deployments at your operation, leading to redundant tools and disjointed end-user experiences. 

• Your security team faces an increasing number of access control requests and use cases on a daily basis, making your IAM too hard to manage with your current on-premise infrastructure.

• The established identity solutions at your operation cannot scale to meet new business, security, and user requirements.

• Your current IAM solution requires custom coding for any changes or updates, greatly increasing your identity team workloads.

   

2. Research Flexible IAM Deployment Options 

Once you have identified your IAM pain points, it’s time to learn how flexible deployment options apply to your operation. To illustrate, your industry might have heightened regulatory standards that require you to control your own IT environment. In another example, you might want a SaaS provider like Ping to lighten your workload and handle everything. No matter what you choose, Ping has an IAM deployment option to match your needs.

Ping lets you decide exactly how much control you would like over your IAM solution:

• We Manage: If you let Ping manage your IAM, we integrate your entire infrastructure with the PingOne Cloud. Since Ping handles everything with this option, it is a great choice for companies that require scalability and cost-effectiveness. This model also offers 99.99% uptime and the fastest time to value. 

• You Manage: With this deployment option, you are responsible for managing your entire IAM infrastructure--including deploying, maintaining, and upgrading software, as well as securing the on-premise server, your cloud, or both. This is a popular choice for companies in highly regulated industries that require you to control your own IT environment. 

• Partner-managed: When you use partner-managed IAM, a third party vendor like Microsoft Azure or Amazon Web Services (AWS) keeps your data, applications, and servers secure. Some businesses opt for partner-managed IAM because they don’t want their entire IAM ecosystem housed by a single provider.

At Ping Identity, we recommend choosing between IAM solutions based on the challenges you’re having, as well as your future goals. Of course, you also want to consider the time and money you’re able to put into managing your own IT environment. 

3. Determine Ideal IAM Solutions

The last step is deciding the ideal IAM solutions for your operation. Remember, this choice should be based on where your company is right now, as well as where you plan on going in the future. Things to consider include scalability, uptime, and the ability to integrate IAM cloud networks via the internet and APIs. 

When you work with Ping Identity for your IAM solutions, you are able to: 

• Choose the best flexible IAM deployment option for you - including on-prem, cloud-native, cloud-based, and hybrid cloud approaches. 

• Deploy a new IAM solution when it makes sense in order to minimize the risk of downtime for your operation.

• Migrate your IAM to a managed cloud infrastructure to greatly reduce the workload for your in-house IT team. 

• Unify users and policies within a centralized directory and authentication authority to eliminate errors and inefficiencies. 

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

If you want to learn more about Ping’s offerings, visit our flexible IAM deployment options page. Here, we present various IAM scenarios and self-assessing guided questions - along with the details, features, and capabilities of each deployment option.

At some point, your digital transformation will lead you to IAM deployment. When you work with Ping Identity, we will handle any infrastructural changes that need to be made. Whether you operate on a hybrid, multi-cloud, multi-generational, cloud-first, or completely on-premise environment, Ping has you covered.

The PingOne Cloud Platform was designed specifically with flexibility and scalability in mind. Not only does PingOne greatly improve the user experience, but it also meets regulatory requirements without sacrificing capabilities. In the end, Ping Identity provides frictionless digital experiences that offer the perfect balance of security and convenience.

Since Ping is one of the world’s leading cloud-based IAM providers, you will never have to go through another deployment when you partner with us. From API integrations with PingOne DaVinci to passwordless logins and adaptive authentication, we consistently lead the cybersecurity industry in identity management.

Ping’s IAM solutions are flexible in every sense of the word — deploy now, and we’ll stay with you every step of your digital transformation journey. Click here to learn more.