The Gluu Server the WordPress of IAM

1. The Gluu Server the Word Press of IAM One of our goals for the Gluu Server is to replicate the success of Word Press, the popular open source content management system idp saml (sso) used by more than 72 million domains on the Internet (including this one!). Along the way, we’ve identified many similarities between the two platforms. J

2. Just like a CMS, every domain on the Internet needs a solution for authenticating people and controlling access to resources. Also, a CMS and an identity and access management (IAM) system is invariably intertwined: if you think of a CMS as the house, the IAM system is the lock that restricts or enables access to the appropriate resources and people. Due to the inherently custom nature of both a CMS and an IAM system, only an extremely flexible, scalable and open solution backed by a large community of developers can broadly serve market needs. Word Press provides the foundation for Fortune 500 organizational websites all the way down to individual blogs. While the developers of Word Press at Automatic provide enterprise support, training and more–just as Gluu does for the Gluu Server–many small and medium businesses are able to utilize the platform thanks to the large community of independent and affordable service providers.

3. As modern security needs and access to third-party apps continue to make IAM a similarly universal requirement, a utility platform is needed for managing authentication and authorization. Currently the market for identity and access management is widely distributed with no one solution able to meet the needs of the majority of organizations. SaaS solutions can be quick and affordable, but not flexible or secure enough for many organizations. Proprietary enterprise software, on the other hand, may be good for the Fortune 500 but is too expensive for general market adoption. The few open source solutions that are available today are either not comprehensive enough to provide a unified solution, forcing developers to mix and match several existing open source projects to meet their needs, or have restrictive licenses that make the software enterprise priced when used in production. Both limitations reduce usability and community development. Like Word Press, the Gluu Server is free to use in production, provides a large enough feature set for most organizations out of the box, and is extensible enough to build custom features as needed.

4. By enabling people to use and build upon the Gluu Server for free, we envision a worldwide community of security professionals that are able to help organizations with access management challenges using the Gluu Server. Two businesses are never exactly alike. Core software like a CMS or an IAM system needs to be flexible, affordable and open to serve the hundreds of millions of new websites being created each year. As the pain and frustration of dealing with insufficient web access management Wam software solutions continues to grow, we see the Gluu Server, with its industry leading feature set and free open source license, securing a dominant place in the IAM market just as Word Press did in the CMS market. Article resource:-https://storify.com/gluu/the-gluu-server-the-wordpress-of-iam