Why is secure access management important in OCI?

Secure access management is crucial in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) primarily to prevent unauthorized access to cloud applications. In today’s cloud-centric environment, where organizations are increasingly moving their critical workloads and sensitive data to the cloud, ensuring that only authorized users have the ability to access those resources is paramount for security.

By implementing robust access management practices, organizations can enforce policies that dictate who can access what resources and under what conditions. This can include multi-factor authentication, role-based access control, and the principle of least privilege, which collectively contribute to safeguarding sensitive information and applications against unauthorized users and potential breaches.

While factors like network speed, operational costs, and user experience can be important to a cloud strategy, they do not directly address the critical need for safeguarding sensitive data and applications from unauthorized access, which is at the heart of secure access management. Therefore, the focus on preventing unauthorized access makes this aspect of OCI security paramount.