Ghosts of the Past: Tackling IGA Transformation
- Diana Volere
- October 31, 2019
- 3:58 am
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Halloween lurks around the corner bringing chills, thrills, and fun frights. While a good scare is in the spirit of the holiday; the terror of a data breach is never enjoyable. Arthur C. Clarke compared technology to magic, a reasonable analogy today’s world. Our cars drive themselves, disembodied voices obey our instructions, we can see friends half-a-world away via glass screens, and at work, we can manage a team spread among multiple countries; technology has transfigured our world, as surely as McGonagal did her desk. All this wonder is not without its own dark alleys and boogeymen. Like a blood pact, technology decisions of the past seem to get in the way of modernization. Legacy identity solutions can’t support the new initiatives you want to embrace, because every time you are trying to do something new, another skeleton rises from the graveyard of past decisions.
Let’s look at some of the challenges enterprises face from these undying implementations and the cost of not laying these bones to rest. This Hallow’s Eve we’ll take a moment to explore some of the creepy aspects of IT and consider the needful things that have granted our desires… but not without a price.