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Implementing identity and access management
From the course: CompTIA Cloud+ (CV0-004) Cert Prep
Implementing identity and access management
- All right, we talked earlier in this course about identity and access management. I want to go a little deeper now because we're in the security chapter, and this is a big part of security. So we want to talk about IAM and its importance in the cloud. So first of all, IAM provides for you the capability to have secure access. Now, by secure access, we mean, you know, maybe you're doing a CLI access, command line interface. You've got a Linux instance running in your cloud provider. You need to administer it for remote, and you're going to do CLI to do that. Maybe we're talking about a web-based interface to an application that's running in the cloud. Whatever it is, we want secure access, and this includes programmatic access, like APIs and SDKs and CLIs. So an API is an application programming interface. Now, how do we have secure access there? Well, we have authentication to our APIs. There are public APIs. There…
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