use case

Modernize Legacy Applications

use case

Modernize Legacy Applications

Challenge

Technology and Regulatory Change Render Applications Outdated

Identity capabilities, protocols, infrastructure and APIs, not to mention regulations, frameworks and industry standards, constantly evolve. This forces organizations to either continually enhance their applications- of which they may have thousands- to stay current or alternatively to accept a growing gap between what is required and what is actually implemented.

Impact

Results in Mounting IAM Technical Debt

Maintaining an established identity security posture over time is an expensive, time intensive effort. Given the work needed to remain in sync, most self-hosted applications fall into a state of non-compliance over time. As Gartner notes, this “IAM technical debt impacts quality, delivery timelines and budgets of IAM teams.”

"Utilizing the Orchid technology, we can automatically extract the IAM controls for each application- something that has been a traditional blind spot for us- and envision how it will automatically support the latest IAM functionalities, beyond those that are natively supported."

David Corral

Global Head of Cybersecurity Architecture, Repsol

Solution

Use an Identity Fabric to Identify and Track Gaps

Gartner recommends that IAM teams “must collaborate with application owners to pick the appropriate IAM modernization strategies and collaborate with them on a phased modernization approach.” Among other things, an Identity Fabric can provide an actionable assessment (and remediation) of gaps through augmentation and integration; without recoding the application.