Claris has revealed that "Centralized Control for FileMaker Security" is in their product roadmap. I have some concerns about their likely approach for this. We deploy solutions with FileMaker Go that must run in areas with no Internet access. If they are planning to replace the current security model with an identity management system that relies on an online, centralized server, this would be an issue for us. 

We already use a scripted architecture to replicate accounts across hosted files and are working on a solution to expand this to remote files as well.

I will demonstrate our scripted solution and open the discussion on the topic of centralized security management - beyond external authentication or third-party identity providers.

1. The scenario for a multi-file architecture and why external authentication and third-party ID providers are not options in this scenario.
2. The public module for centralized account management and implementation walk-through.
3. A discussion of Claris' roadmap and the approach we have been working on..