Basics of Multi-Cloud Synchronizations

The bulk of security still revolves around having users, identified by their passwords, having access to resources through a role based security or group policy. Organizations have spent years maturing their Active Directory infrastructures and process.

As an organization onboards yet another public cloud, it comes with its own set of IAM (Identity and Access Management) paradigm. While configuring security and group policies is an allied and most important task of onboarding another cloud platform, the regular assignment and revocation of those policies to users quickly becomes an operations nightmare if not automated.

Hosting Controller is a unified cloud management tool (also called control panel) and includes support for multi-cloud deployment in different ways.

But all those features share a way to synchronize changes between local master Active Directory environments and public cloud IAMs. It synchronizes:

User Accounts

As a user is created in the master Active Directory, its replicated across multiple public cloud IAMs.

Passwords

Passwords are changed in the master Active Directory only through whatever security means are already in place for the organization. As soon as the password is changed in the master AD, it is automatically synchronized into multiple targets.

Group Memberships

As a user is assigned or revoked a group membership, it is synchronized in the IAM.