Identity and access management (IAM) once helped IT departments in large enterprises manage employees in Microsoft Active Directory. In a modern IT environment, IAM plays a far more critical role in authorizing geographically dispersed workforces as they connect to internal resources, cloud resources, and especially software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
IT teams can no longer easily manage individual user rights and permissions with the rapid increase in SaaS applications and remote work. IAM offloads the burden of individual access management and automates the onboarding and offboarding processes as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Choosing the best software for IAM needs becomes even more complicated as developers, customers, and even access from other applications all enter the picture. Some organizations require a dedicated IAM solution while others may only need an IAM tool within a portfolio of other security products.We’ll review our picks for the top IAM solutions, their features, pricing, use cases, pros and cons, and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This chart compares some of the most basic features of IAM tools, as well as some less common capabilities like identity orchestration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2705 = Has feature ?= Not offered ? = Unclear \u2795= Available from vendor in another solution<\/p>\n\n\n<\/th> MFA<\/th> Privilege access management<\/th> Identity orchestration \/ workflows<\/th> Secrets management<\/th><\/tr><\/thead> CyberArk Workforce Identity <\/a><\/strong><\/td> \u2705<\/td> \u2795<\/td> \u2705<\/td> \u2795<\/td><\/tr> JumpCloud Platform<\/a><\/strong><\/td> \u2705<\/td> ?<\/td> ?<\/td> \u2705<\/td><\/tr> Okta<\/a><\/strong><\/td> \u2705<\/td> \u2705<\/td> \u2705<\/td> ?<\/td><\/tr> OneLogin<\/a><\/strong><\/td> \u2705<\/td> \u2795<\/td> \u2795<\/td> ?<\/td><\/tr> ManageEngine<\/a><\/strong><\/td> \u2705<\/td> \u2705<\/td> \u2705<\/td> ?<\/td><\/tr> Microsoft<\/a><\/strong><\/td> \u2705<\/td> \u2705<\/td> \u2705<\/td> ?<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n JumpCloud<\/strong><\/strong> –<\/strong> Best <\/mark>Overall<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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