Whether you’re building a new app or migrating a legacy app to the cloud, you face a choice: build everything in-house or selectively use out-of-the-box services to make the job easier and faster.
Out-of-the-box services like Twilio, for messaging, and Braintree, for payments, have gained popularity because they help lean dev teams remain agile and keep operational costs down.
While easy to overlook, identity and access management is a huge potential pitfall that can slow down release dates as much as 6 months or more. In addition to product launch delays, poorly built access management leads to the security vulnerabilities and the bad customer experience stats shown below.
- Time-to-Market delays can last 6 months or more when building auth
- 71% of customers abandon sign on when faced with friction
- TCO for legacy identity can be 3X the cost of cloud
- 51% of enterprises suffered at least one breach in the past year
For this reason, there’s significant value in using a secure identity service to manage customer identity and access management. Any third-party solution must be both secure and developer friendly so that organizations can avoid these pitfalls.
In order to gauge the value of going with a solution vs. building internally, here are 5 modern auth challenges that must be overcome when building internally.
