Build vs. Buy: Is DIY Customer Identity Slowing Your Time to Market?

Join Okta's Field CTO for Public Sector on August 7th! 

Every team building a web or mobile app faces the same dilemma when adding new functionalities: should we build it in-house or use out-of-the-box services? Identity and access management sparks the exact same debate.

The logic for those who opt to build Customer Identity solutions in-house looks like this: It’s just a login box, and our developers can handle it. How hard can it be?

However, what starts as conceptually simple - a username and password controlling access to your app - can expand into a complex engineering problem. As businesses grow and customers request more features, building, maintaining, and scaling a homegrown solution becomes a full-time job for your developers and a major drain on resources. Developer time spent on DIY identity, security, and compliance is time taken away from core business innovation.

In this session, Okta will cover:

• What is CIAM and why it can make or break your business
• How you can speed up innovation and drive growth efficiently
• How you can reduce the risk of a security breach and easily meet
  compliance requirements
• How you can lower the total cost of ownership of app development