Identity Management on Identience http://identience.com:1313/categories/identity-management/ Recent content in Identity Management on Identience Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Wed, 10 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 IAM From Mars... Are We Doing It Wrong? Bridging the Gap Between Enterprise Product Paradigms and Research & Education Reality http://identience.com:1313/posts/iam-from-mars/ Wed, 10 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 http://identience.com:1313/posts/iam-from-mars/ <p>Identity and Access Management (IAM) is often treated by the tech industry as a solved problem with universal paradigms. If you talk to most mainstream IAM professionals, the conversations neatly center around familiar terms: <strong>Workforce IAM</strong>, <strong>B2B</strong>, <strong>B2C</strong>, and <strong>Customer Identity (CIAM)</strong>[cite: 249]. The market builds commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) products designed around clean software-of-record (SOR) lines, assuming clear transitions as users are provisioned, updated, and eventually deprovisioned[cite: 249, 252, 277].</p> <p>But when you try to drop those rigid enterprise product models into the world of <strong>Research and Education (R&amp;E)</strong>, the gear teeth grind, the paradigms shatter, and you realize we are speaking entirely different languages[cite: 250, 254, 255].</p> The Enterprise Identity Paradox: Why Rigid Identity Paradigms Fail at Scale http://identience.com:1313/posts/the-enterprise-identity-paradox/ Sat, 06 Jun 2026 12:00:00 -0700 http://identience.com:1313/posts/the-enterprise-identity-paradox/ Explore the Law of Enterprise Identity Entropy and discover why forcing a strict authentication monoculture on a massive, complex organization mathematically degrades your real-world security posture.