Secured Identity and Access Management for Cloud Computing Using Zero Trust Architecture

Cloud computing environment combines a variety of networked devices to facilitate the provision of requested services. 8–9% challenges related to cloud are due to identity and access management. Numerous academics and industry experts have diligently tackled the challenges associated with ensuring secure access to cloud resources. It constitutes a core element of cloud security and assumes a pivotal role in the protection of data and assets housed and handled within cloud ecosystems. Identity management is used to authorization of registered users or customers and access management is used to provide access to user of data and services provided by cloud. Various identity management and access management protocols are compared in this research paper. Need of Zero Trust Architecture has been analyzed. Two major access management schemes are implemented with 10 roles and 18 polices using Zero Trust Architecture and its results shows the improvement in security performance of cloud environment.