{"id":30643,"date":"2022-09-07T17:15:12","date_gmt":"2022-09-07T21:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jumpcloud.com\/?p=30643"},"modified":"2024-07-11T13:19:06","modified_gmt":"2024-07-11T17:19:06","slug":"iam-vs-idaas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jumpcloud.com\/blog\/iam-vs-idaas","title":{"rendered":"IAM vs. IDaaS: What’s the Difference?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
The modern identity management space can be confusing, with a wide array of solutions available from a variety of different vendors. It doesn\u2019t help that there are so many acronyms in use today, such as IAM<\/a>, IdP, IDaaS, SaaS, PIM, PAM, MFA, 2FA, and many more to describe similar but distinct identity management concepts. <\/p>\n\n\n\n While it would take far longer than one article to decode every<\/em> identity management acronym, here, we\u2019ll tackle two of the biggest ones: the difference between identity and access management (IAM), and identity as-a-service (IDaaS<\/a>). <\/p>\n\n\n\nIAM Defined<\/h2>\n\n\n\n