Many of the advantages of a cloud authentication solution are the same as any other cloud deployment. They include:
Predictable and lower operating costs: With a cloud solution for authentication, financial institutions and other organizations can reduce the ongoing costs of replacing server equipment, network infrastructure, network maintenance, hosting, security procedures and more. This results in operating costs that are not only lower than local deployments, but also more consistent.Ability to scale the solution: The cloud gives organizations the ability to scale up or down as needed to meet current demand. It is a much simpler and faster effort to acquire more cloud service capacity than deploying new server equipment on site.There is no need to host equipment on site or placed: With the cloud, a financial institution is no longer responsible for housing and cooling IT equipment.
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This can reduce the IT department's total operating expenses.No extra IT staff: IT equipment requires maintenance. In a cloud deployment, the cloud provider is typically responsible for maintaining the equipment on which an application is hosted. For local OneSpan customers, for example, migrating to the cloud means that qualified IAS / ASF infrastructure engineers can be reassigned to other IT projects.