SCIM: Why It’s More Important, and More Simple, Than You Think

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Presented at CloudIdentitySummit 2014 by

Kelly Grizzle

A relative "new kid" on the IAM standards block, the Simple Cloud Identity Management (SCIM) specification was designed to be simple and improve manageability and governance for cloud applications. It does not try to cover every provisioning use case, but rather supports the most common situations. Wide-spread adoption of the SCIM standard will, ultimately, simplify cloud-based IAM, making it more convenient and cost-effective for users to move into, out of and around the cloud. In this session, Kelly Grizzle, principal software engineer at SailPoint, will outline why it is not only critical for IAM vendors to support SCIM, but also why SaaS vendors and their customers should support the standard to ensure it is widely available and simplifies how enterprises manage cloud apps as part of their overall IAM program. The presentation will also demonstrate the simplicity of the SCIM specification as well as some of the available open source tools that allow it to easily be integrated into the IAM infrastructure.