A Developer-Centric Approach to CIAM and the Road to Passwordless
Host Cameron D'Ambrosi from Liminal sits down with Brian Pontarelli, Founder and CTO of FusionAuth, for a deep dive into Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM).
The episode explores the exciting developments and persistent challenges in identity, user data management, and the quest for seamless digital transitions.
Key Discussion Points:
- The CIAM Disconnect: Highlighting a key challenge where half of developer teams prefer testing authentication locally, a method often unsupported by multi-tenant SaaS CIAM solutions.
- Passwordless Authentication: Exploring the latest developments in passwordless solutions and the security trade-offs developers face. Passkeys, for example, are a point of both familiarity and high technical complexity for many teams.
- The Hybrid Solution: Pontarelli shares his perspective on why FusionAuth embraces a developer-centric, hybrid model that allows organizations to self-host and control their authentication, offering greater control over performance and troubleshooting.
- Homegrown Auth Risks: Discussing the findings that while security is often cited as the biggest benefit of building auth in-house, one in five teams still experienced a breach, underscoring that control requires significant ongoing work.
