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Dwayne Natwick
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Dwayne Natwick

Dwayne Natwick is a Cloud Training Architect Lead at Opsgility, a Microsoft CSP. He has been in IT, security design, and architecture for over 30 years. His love of teaching led him to become a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) Regional Lead and a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP). Dwayne has a master’s degree in Business IT from Walsh College, the CISSP from ISC2, and 18 Microsoft certifications, including Identity and Access Administrator, Azure Security Engineer, and Microsoft 365 Security Administrator. Dwayne can be found providing and sharing information on social media, industry conferences, his blog site, and his YouTube channel. Originally from Maryland, Dwayne currently resides in Michigan with his wife and three children.
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The evolution of IAM

Now that you understand more about IAM, how it is used in our daily lives, and the importance of protecting our resources with IAM, it is important to understand how IAM has changed as people and companies have continued to use more applications and resources in the cloud.

This section will discuss the evolution of IAM at a high level. This will provide a better level of understanding in terms of the importance of IAM and how it is changing with the increasingly growing role of cloud technologies within companies and for personal use. Three stages are discussed when talking about IAM: traditional, advanced, and optimal. We will go through each of these in detail.

Traditional

Traditional IAM is how IAM was handled prior to cloud technologies. As a company, all applications and user identities were within a private data center. Users that connected to resources did so through secure virtual private network (VPN) connections into the data center to access...

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Published in: Mar 2022Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781801818049

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Dwayne Natwick

Dwayne Natwick is a Cloud Training Architect Lead at Opsgility, a Microsoft CSP. He has been in IT, security design, and architecture for over 30 years. His love of teaching led him to become a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) Regional Lead and a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP). Dwayne has a master’s degree in Business IT from Walsh College, the CISSP from ISC2, and 18 Microsoft certifications, including Identity and Access Administrator, Azure Security Engineer, and Microsoft 365 Security Administrator. Dwayne can be found providing and sharing information on social media, industry conferences, his blog site, and his YouTube channel. Originally from Maryland, Dwayne currently resides in Michigan with his wife and three children.
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