{"id":1676,"date":"2021-02-09T11:00:22","date_gmt":"2021-02-09T16:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jumpcloud.com\/?p=1676"},"modified":"2024-08-15T12:19:07","modified_gmt":"2024-08-15T16:19:07","slug":"considering-ldap-alternative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jumpcloud.com\/blog\/considering-ldap-alternative","title":{"rendered":"Considering an Alternative to LDAP?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

LDAP<\/a> has been a mainstay in many organizations for decades. As a core platform for user management, authentication, and authorization, LDAP systems are often the backbone for more technical infrastructure such as data centers, Linux-based applications, and more. Over time, as different types of IT resources have proliferated using their own preferred authentication protocols, not all organizations want an LDAP server<\/a> as their core authentication platform; however, they do still want the ability to leverage it. Is there an alternative to LDAP that IT and Sysadmins can utilize?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before we answer that question, lets first understand why LDAP is still an important protocol to support today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why LDAP?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

As organizations grow and hit even just a handful of users, they end up looking hard at a system that will help them organize and keep track of their user accounts<\/a> and<\/em> what those users can access. User access control (also known as identity and access management) is a core system for most organizations and critically important as an infrastructure component, but it isn\u2019t a place where organizations want to devote a lot of their time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most companies realize that they need to be innovating on their product or service and not building out their internal user management infrastructure. But then they start to experience the pain of dealing with their user management controls, which can include: <\/p>\n\n\n\n