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Mapping the Journey to Universal Directory

18. Mai 2020

okta logo 400 colorOver the last couple of decades, companies have become accustomed to safely managing their users, groups, devices, and resources within the corporate network. Using enterprise directories, they have been able to define singular access policies that determine how employees and customers can access the apps and resources they need. But as they modernize their systems, smart companies are shifting how they restrict and permit access to business information.

 

During this time, the enterprise directories of choice have been Microsoft’s Active Directory (AD) and Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) servers from a variety of vendors. These have been most commonly hosted in an on-premises data center within a company firewall. Users came primarily from Windows domains, devices were Windows clients or servers, and AD was employed to store properties and profiles for applications like Exchange and Sharepoint, and to control access to WiFi and networks. ...read more!