DayBlink Consulting Partner and Cyber Security Practice Lead Michael Morgenstern contributed to Cloud Security Alliance’s “Navigating Identity and Access Management (IAM): Standards and Protocols.”
From the Cloud Security Alliance: Identity has become the primary perimeter in today’s interconnected digital landscape. Organizations need a practical way to secure identities and manage access, along with the ability to choose the right IAM protocols for each use case.
This guide provides an in-depth breakdown of several major IAM standards and protocols. It explains how these standards support authentication, authorization, provisioning, identity governance, API security, and cloud identity management for both human and non-human identities.
Readers will learn the purpose, strengths, limitations, implementation scenarios, and real-world applications of each standard or protocol. By categorizing IAM standards by their functional capabilities and technical roles, this publication helps architects and security leaders build a cohesive identity strategy that supports current operations, cloud-native applications, Zero Trust security models, and future growth.
Key Takeaways:
- How IAM standards and protocols enable secure interoperability across disparate systems.
- When to use key protocols such as OAuth 2.0, SAML 2.0, OIDC, SCIM, and FIDO2/WebAuthn.
- Best practices for authentication, authorization, provisioning, and identity governance.
- Security, scalability, compliance, and implementation pitfalls to consider when modernizing IAM.
- How to manage IAM for human users, service accounts, workloads, devices, and AI agents.
Read the full publication here: https://cloudsecurityalliance.org/artifacts/navigating-identity-and-access-management-iam