An Integrated Identity and Access Management Framework for Cloud Web Services

Abstract

The business environments are often experiencing drastic and dynamic changes newlinedue to technology advancements. The digitalization of business solutions helps newlinethe organizations in responding to the changing needs and environments. Cloud newlineservice is an important paradigm for digital solutions as it brings down the newlineorganizational expenditure. The organizations are adapting to cloud networks newlineat a rapid pace due to the benefits like cost-effectiveness, scalability, reliability newlineand flexibility. Though the primary merits of cloud computing are promising newlinefacts, cloud networks are vulnerable to various kinds of network attacks and newlineprivacy issues. The features like multi tenancy and the third party managed newlineinfrastructure in cloud environment necessitates the requirement of identity and newlineaccess management mechanism.