US cyber agency offers guidance on cloud-based hybrid identity management models

As organizations move biometric and identity data management to cloud-based services to maintain optimal protection against cybersecurity threats, there are inevitable pain points when cloud systems collide with legacy on-premises digital ID management models to create what the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) calls “hybrid identity solutions.” To minimize disruption and ensure interoperability between systems facing integration, the agency has published guidance on secure cloud business applications.

“CISA developed this Hybrid Identity Solutions Guidance to help …

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