Identity as a Service (IDaaS) – The Industry That is Changing the Cloud

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The convenience and widespread adoption of cloud-based services make it easier than ever to allow users to store and share files with relative ease and fluidity. This lets users work remotely and share data and ideas quickly across geographical lines.

Offering users an impressive variety of cloud-based features and functions, the adoption rate of Office 365 and its counterpart Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) is rapidly increasing. Independent estimates of Office 365 users have come in at over 80 million users in 2016. Microsoft has claimed that more than one million government employees use O365. Azure product sales have consistently risen by 100% quarterly.

This widespread growth can largely be attributed to the convenience these services represent. Users can get access to these services on a variety of platforms and are not as labor-intensive for in-house IT departments.

The added convenience, however, presents large corporations using these services with a number of privacy, security, and logistical issues. Giving employees access to applications and company documents is much more complicated than providing them with a desktop computer in the company’s headquarters. Now, employees may be working remotely, file structures and access levels are more complex, and large corporations have multiple offices all over the globe.