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Remember Defense-in-Depth? Apply It To The Customer Lifecycle. Users, especially those in customer identity, have a lifecycle. They register, they login, they give and revoke consent, and they update passwords or MFA settings. They may arrive via federation and they may be federated to other systems. Ultimately, they may decide to disable or delete their accounts. It's important to look at each of these steps along the customer lifecycle and apply some manner of threat modeling to it.

Stephen Cox

Aug 17, 2021
5 min read

Understanding Deployment Options When Evaluating CIAM We discuss the top reasons to consider using a CIAM platform and the good and bad of the different deployment options that are available.

Keith Graham

Jun 11, 2021
4 min read

CIAM Platforms: Why Security is Paramount Continuing the CIAM Platform series, we discuss the top security specific reasons for why your organization should consider using a CIAM platform.

Keith Graham

Mar 18, 2021
4 min read

Top Reasons to Consider Using a CIAM Platform This blog lays out the top reasons to consider using a CIAM platform when planning your customer identity journey.

Keith Graham

Feb 24, 2021
5 min read

The What and the Why of Any Modern CIAM Platform When choosing a CIAM offering, there are many must-have capabilities which should be provided by the platform. We discuss what they are, why they're important to any digital transformation initiative, and most importantly, their importance and significance to the customer.

Keith Graham

Feb 18, 2021
9 min read

Tradeoffs of using Open-Source CIAM This blog is an excerpt taken from the whitepaper, "An Evaluators Guide to Buying or Building CIAM" and discusses the top reasons to consider using a CIAM platform and the tradeoffs for opting to use an open-source IAM offering instead.

Keith Graham

Feb 9, 2021
3 min read

Infrastructure: Planning for Change If you weren't paying for a product or service, would the provider rebuild it? If you knew the answer was 'yes,' would you still make the purchase? Here is how we're future-proofing your software.

Eric Lordahl

Oct 16, 2020
8 min read

It’s Good to Talk Reflections of saying goodbye to internal email communication, thanks to the late Bob Hoskins.

Keith Graham

Sep 29, 2020
7 min read

Why CIAM Doesn't Need Any More 10 Minute Abs Find out what 10 Minute Abs and successful CIAM programs have in common

Keith Graham

Aug 11, 2020
5 min read

Can Customer Identity Benefit from Zero Trust? People are the new perimeter in the Zero Trust model. Can this help in the world of customer identity? Is Zero Trust just for the benefit of workforce or employee identity?

Matt Edwards

Jul 17, 2020
5 min read

The Curious Case of the Nicolas Cage Pillow Deep thoughts on the intersection of Nicolas Cage and customer insights and segmentation.

Stephen Cox

May 14, 2020
4 min read

What Do a Security Trade Show and a Poorly Designed Website Have in Common? RSA was the same hot mess that it always is. Every year I tell myself it will be my last visit, who knows when it will be true. I do know that I would be much less likely to search for reasons not to go if they implemented some of the basic principles of CIAM.

John Milburn

Mar 2, 2020
6 min read

CIAM Fundamentals: How CIAM Differs from IAM and Why That’s Important Customers vote with their feet and their business. With CIAM, success always comes back to customer experience.

Keith Graham

Feb 28, 2020
7 min read

Threat Detection in the CIAM Context: What's Old is New Again Detecting threats using identity matters. Find out why it matters even more in CIAM and how to do it.

Stephen Cox

Jan 14, 2020
5 min read

Isolation by Design: A Peek Into the Future of CIAM Using Kubernetes Embracing best practices in technology doesn’t have to be difficult, especially when starting from scratch. Learn how kube is helping move the needle for CIAM.

Eric Lordahl

Jan 9, 2020
5 min read

It's Beginning to Cost a Lot Like Christmas How effective CIAM saved Christmas, and probably my marriage.

John Milburn

Dec 19, 2019
4 min read

Customers Do Business with Those They Trust Whatever market you are in, your customers have choices. Here are our views on what can influence whether customers make the right choice for your brand.

John Milburn

Dec 18, 2019
3 min read

Don’t lose focus on your mission! Why focus matters and putting it into context in the brave new world of CIAM.

John Milburn

Dec 17, 2019
2 min read

Hello World! Welcome to Strivacity, and a very warm welcome to the Strive blog - our space dedicated to sharing our customer identity tips, tricks, and musings.

John Milburn

Dec 12, 2019
2 min read