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The New Realities Facing Modern IT Workforce
Modern IT organizations are facing new and distinct challenges as their businesses
evolve to meet the shifting needs of their users
Employees
Contractors
Partners
AD
HRIS
Users are demanding More users accessing Users are spread across
new cloud apps to stay more apps from more siloed user directories with
innovative and agile devices – Often outside no centralized way to
the network manage
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Legacy IT Holds Back Investments in Innovation
Infrastructure
Operations
80% of the IT budget
are consumed by operating, maintaining
Updates and
Changes and managing existing systems and
workloads
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These Realities Creates New Challenges for IT
• New apps can be cumbersome to • Employees, contractors and partners • On/Offboarding manual and time
integrate and slow to deploy outside the firewall can’t securely access consuming
apps
• Legacy systems don’t integrate well • IT overwhelmed and slow to
with cloud apps • Siloed User Directories respond
• End users frustrated with managing • No Compliance Visibility (GDPR etc) • Users forget their passwords and
multiple login credentials and portals • No Insights into App Utilization overwhelm IT with reset tickets
• Insecure App Access on Mobile and
Mac
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Workforce
APIs
Cloud
apps
On-prem
apps
Organizations
YESTERDAY
Network as the perimeter
Firewall, VPN
TODAY
People are the perimeter
Identity-driven security
TOMORROW
People are the only perimeter
Zero Trust, Privacy
An identity-centric approach
to Zero Trust Security