Why should we care?

  • Your org should be able to equip you with the tools required to be a creative and effective data scientist without jeopardizing their privacy/security
  • Data access, of course
    • Internal data sources often only need LDAP-like credentials (not SSO)
    • Some orgs use Kerberos to create SSO-like tokens for data
    • Others still use JSON Web Token (JWT) — rare but still new
    • IAM is often used for cloud-to-cloud security
  • Service accounts are software that needs permission to do things by itself
    • e.g. you don’t want to have to sign in yourself for every user who wants to use your secure Shiny app