Eight Essentials for Hybrid Identity

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May 28, 2018 Leave a commentCloud Computing, Cloud Computing, Consumerization of IT, Industry, Internet of Things, Microsoft, People, Policy, Process, Security, TechnologyBy Roger Halbheer

It is not new, that identity will become your new perimeter, your next control pane. Still I see a lot of companies struggle with the concept and with the feeling to have the identity in the Cloud. Often, I hear the statement that they “lose control” once the identity is (at least partly) managed in an environment like Azure Active Directory.

I must admit that I had to learn there as well and that I had similar feelings in the past but from what I see today, I would even say that you get more control over your identities than you have on-prem.

The journey to the Cloud identity will be the hybrid one for different reasons – foremost it is the fact that you have applications which will not be able to deal with pure Cloud identities.

Our teams now started a blog series addressing this journey with eight essentials.

Definitely something which is worth looking at: Eight Essentials for Hybrid Identity: #1 A new identity mindset

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About the author

Roger Halbheer

Roger Halbheer is an Executive Security Advisor at Microsoft in EMEA acting as a trusted advisor to CxO. Before that he was a Managing Director at Accenture's Financial Services. Before joining Accenture, he was the Chief Security Officer of Swisscom (Switzerland's largest telecom provider) and the global Chief Security Advisor for Microsoft.