IAM Key Components

IAM involves several key components, including authentication, authorization, and user provisioning and de-provisioning. Authentication is the process of verifying the identity of a user or device that is requesting access to a cloud resource. This can be achieved through various methods, such as passwords, security tokens, and biometric factors like fingerprints or facial recognition. By verifying the user’s identity, organizations can ensure that only authorized users have access to their cloud resources.

Authorization is the process of granting or denying access to a specific cloud resource based on the user’s identity and access privileges. Access privileges are typically assigned based on the user’s role or job function within the organization. For example, a user with administrative privileges would have access to more sensitive data and systems than a user with a basic user role.

Added Layer of Security

Multi-factor authentication (MFA) is becoming increasingly popular as an added layer of security for the authentication process. MFA requires users to provide more than one form of authentication, such as a password and a security token, to verify their identity. This helps to prevent unauthorized access by ensuring that a potential attacker would need to possess more than just one factor of authentication to gain access to cloud resources.

Role-based access control (RBAC) is a model for managing access to cloud resources based on the user’s role or job function within the organization. RBAC allows organizations to manage access to resources more efficiently and securely by limiting access to only those users who require it to perform their job duties. This reduces the risk of data breaches and other security incidents that may occur due to unauthorized access.

User provisioning and de-provisioning are crucial components of IAM that ensure that users are provided with the necessary access privileges when they join an organization, and those privileges are removed when they leave the organization. This helps to prevent former employees from retaining access to sensitive data and systems after they have left the organization.

Conclusion

Ultimately, IAM is a critical aspect of cloud security that allows organizations to manage the digital identities of their users and control their access to cloud resources. By implementing IAM frameworks, organizations can reduce the risk of data breaches and other security incidents that may occur due to unauthorized access to cloud resources. IAM provides organizations with greater control over their cloud resources, ensuring that only authorized users have access to sensitive data and systems. As more and more organizations move their operations to the cloud, IAM will become increasingly important in ensuring the security of cloud-based data and systems.

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Computer, or IT in general, is always something unique since its birth. Moore’s law truly describes it perfectly. In layman’s words, it says that computer performance will always double every two years.

It means that every two years the IT industries will always have innovations. Meanwhile, in-house IT infrastructure will always be lagging. This could spell disaster for business, especially in the current digital environment.

One of the ways you can do to keep with the current digital environment is to integrate managed service into your business. Here, you can find what a managed service is and why you should use it.

What is Manage Service

First, let’s answer the question of “what is managed service?”

Manage service is a term that describes the outsourcing use of a third party in maintaining, managing, and administrating anything related to IT. It can be your infrastructure, security, or storage among other things.

In 2025, Statista projected that this type of IT service will reach a market cap of around $356 billion. It shows how businesses shift from in-house IT service to outsourcing others that specialized in it.

Small to medium business is the one that is most profited from this trend. It allows them to keep up and even compete with middle to enterprise-level within the digital market.

Why Use Managed Services?

Now that we have cleared the basics of what managed service is, we can immediately go to a more in-depth explanation of why you should use this service.

Generally, there are 6 benefits that you can receive from outsourcing your IT management.

1. Handled by Expert

Handling by the expert for your IT infrastructure will be the first benefit of using a managed service.

As previously mentioned, development and innovation within the IT world always come at a quick pace. This would result in some businesses being unable to keep up with the pace.

Meanwhile, MSP or Managed Service Provider has the sole focus on keeping up with the current IT development and innovation. Thus, they will have all the experts needed in operating an up-to-date IT infrastructure.

2. Low Cost

Businesses that use managed services can also reduce the spending needed to keep IT running. This could range from the infrastructure and especially the labor cost.

An agreement between business and MSP can also make sure that there will be no unnecessary service costs. This allows business to shift their expense model into that operating expense model.

3. Easy to Scale

There are times when demand in the business is high and there are times when it is low. Meanwhile, most of the in-house IT infrastructure will stay the way they are. It means that businesses risk overloading or even underloading their IT.

One of the benefits of using MSP is it allows businesses to adjust the IT capacity according to real-time needs. As such you can easily scale your service accordingly.

4. 24/7 Support

MSP will often provide 24/7 support for your business depending on the plan you choose. Thus, you can easily contact or request help at the moment’s notice. MSP with around the globe coverage will be much better in this regard.

5. Minimized Downtime

The experience of most in-house IT users is to fix something that has already broken. This could cost precious time and money to be wasted from the resulting downtime.

By using managed service, you can minimize such downtime with the help of an expert within the MSP. They will proactively maintain and secure your IT infrastructure.

6. Focus on Your Business

The biggest reason for using a managed service is so you can focus more on your business. Today, a growing business means growing IT requirements. This often results in a distraction from your core business.

A good MSP can offer you a flexible service model, be it as an addition to your current team or handle all of your IT needs. In this way, you can back to put your focus on developing and growing the business.

How Wowrack can Help You

With over 20 years of experience in the IT world, Wowrack stands ready to provide white-glove treatment for all of your IT needs. Certified experts, flexible service plans, and advanced tools will allow you to focus entirely on your business.

So, are you ready to advance your business? Let’s get started!

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Myth #1: The Cloud is Not Secure

This is one of the most propagated myths regarding cloud hosting, especially when it comes to a businesses’ private cloud. Data breaches should always be a concern that you put measures in place to avoid, but in terms of security of the cloud vs private hosting, the true details lie in how its protected, not the platform itself.

A way around this is utilizing managed security hosting, a watchdog tactic that allows for continuous monitoring of your network/infrastructure. Unfortunately, many companies do not have the budget to accommodate a 24/7/365 team to ensure constant surveillance of their systems, and when a security issue does crop up, the cloud platform is often incorrectly blamed. Many companies like Wowrack offer more cost-efficient solutions for security monitoring and remediation and can include comprehensive coverage of general infrastructure access controls, network security, disaster recovery, email, data encryption, compliance, and more.

Myth #2: One-Cloud-Fits-All

To the uninitiated, it might seem like the flexible nature of cloud computing can accommodate any size of business – and while this is correct in a way, a public cloud might not be the correct implementation for all, especially for very large environments where at this point, the costs are usually much higher than just having a purpose built private cloud.

Luckily, there are more options to choose from when selecting a hosting environment:

• Private cloud hosting (a single-tenant environment) can be custom-tailored to your company’s specific needs, even allowing for maintaining QoS infrastructure standards, using hardware vendors that you already trust –  which is not possible to do in a public cloud environment and more!
• Hybrid cloud hosting is the perfect choice for businesses who may find benefits in utilizing both public and private cloud, and want to segment their infrastructure between the two. Some companies like Wowrack even allow companies to bring in their own equipment to connect to their public/private cloud via colocation.  Wowrack also offers Direct Connect to connect what you have with us (colocation or other cloud solutions) to what you have with Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, Azure and hundreds of more providers.
• Enterprise dedicated hosting is a great solution for businesses who require a robust dedicated infrastructure that is completely customized to their needs. You should always look for a service that comes with disaster planning, HIPAA/PCI compliance, hyper-convergence and high availability to get your full money’s worth.

Myth #3: Cloud Migration is a Difficult, Frustrating Process

Implementing large changes or new protocols within a business is always a touchy subject, as it is usually associated with disruptions, errors, and difficulty assimilating to the new methods. However, it doesn’t always have to be this way. Utilizing an experienced hosting provider is a much safer way to migrate to the cloud, and will be worth the investment to avoid costly mistakes and complete with minimum downtime. When choosing a company to perform the migration, it’s important that they fully understand your needs so they can build a customized solution and implement it without issues.

Cloud Management – Is it Right for You?

Cloud management is a progressive and safe solution for many businesses, but it is important that you can differentiate the facts from the myths to make the most educated decision possible. Furthermore, your choice of a company to migrate and/or manage your cloud is equally important, as they should perform at the highest level for you to ensure seamless migration and subsequent management for your businesses’ cloud. Schedule a free consultation with Wowrack today to discuss how we can help improve your company through cloud hosting.

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