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Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) is now rightfully regarded as a way for B2B and B2C organizations, large and small, to catalyze growth, shorten time-to-market, achieve regulatory compliance, and responsibly acquire valuable customer data. Whether you ultimately build an Identity stack in-house or choose instead to incorporate a cloud-based CIAM solution into your applications, our genuine hope is that you make an informed decision that’s best for your users. Download this guide to:

Get a crash course in Customer Identity (spoiler: there’s much, much more to it than almost all technology pros realize)

Learn why integrating a third-party CIAM solution into your app or service is faster, more cost-effective for your organization, and results in a more secure, stable, and future-proof Identity stack than building something yourself.


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  1. Introduction 2
  2. Customer Identity crash course: Five things you need to know 3
    1. Customer Identity is sneakily complex, constantly evolving, and under attack 3
    2. Implementing CIAM is a journey 6
    3. Identity has many stakeholders 7
    4. Different customers want different things 8
    5. Identity can force trade-offs between user experiences, security, and privacy 10
  3. The age-old question — build or buy? 10
    1. POC != product 10
    2. If preserving developer capacity and speeding time to market matters, buying is the way to go 13
  4. Why do organizations large and small choose Auth0? 15
    1. Unmatched out-of-the-box functionality 15
    2. A sustainable strategic advantage 17
    3. Extensive developer resources to help your team work efficiently and effectively 17
    4. Everything you need to go after enterprise clients 18
    5. Drag-and-drop extensibility to accommodate and enable your Identity-related use cases 18
    6. Security features to protect your organization and customers 19
    7. Discounted — but still feature-rich — offerings 19
  5. Proven results for organizations like yours 20

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