As you move beyond the safe and controllable traditional network walls and embrace a cloud-centric environment with more and more SaaS applications serving a hybrid working environment, you’ll discover that your users and machines have been given unprecedented levels of power.
These digital identities are your employees, third-party resources, and systems and applications, and they’re all navigating systems and applications from different devices and endpoints. This is great news if you’re trying to scale your business with flexibility and efficiency – but not so much if you’re the security and compliance team trying to gain better control and visibility over this complex environment.
According to the 2024 Threat Intelligence Index Report1, identity has become the leading attack vector. The report showed a 71% increase in valid identities used in cyberattacks year-over-year.
Protecting Human and Non-Human Identities
While attackers target user credentials and compromise valid accounts, they can gain immediate access to the heart of your critical systems and data. They’re preying on the fact that it’s harder than ever for organizations to know what users and machines have access to, what they’re doing with that access, what they’re allowed to possibly do, and whether they’re even legitimate.
This is where identity-centric security can come in and help you win what seems to be an uphill battle.
Are You Fighting an Uphill Battle with Legacy IAM and PAM Tools?
Your cloud-centric identity fabric is vast, dynamic, and complex and because of that, it’s home to a growing number of vulnerabilities and threat actors. Try to face these attackers, armed only with traditional identity governance and administration (IGA) or privileged access management (PAM) tools, and you’ll find that you lack holistic visibility and an ability to proactively defend against and respond in real-time to access misconfigurations, inadequate security controls, identity compromises and other identity risks.
A Proactive, Adaptive Identity Security Approach Is Required
The time is now for IAM and security teams to wipe clean and reduce the identity attack surface.
Protecting your organization from data breaches means modernizing your defenses to keep pace with the rising tide of identity-based attacks. The way can be rocky – it involves taking responsibility for an increasing disparity of identities across on-premises and cloud platforms, wrapping your IAM processes with end-to-end visibility, observability, and actionability – all while remaining compliant with today’s cyber insurance requirements and strict cybersecurity and data protection regulations.
A Guide to Help You Get Started
You’re not alone. We’re here to help. That’s why we created this ebook, Winning the Identity War, to give hope to cybersecurity and IAM teams looking to take control of their identity attack surface and proactively strengthen their identity security posture.
It’s full of insights, recommendations, best practices, and lessons learned from real-world case studies. Here is just a sample of what’s inside this 44-page guide:
- Key Identity Security Requirements to Meeting Industry Regulations and Security Frameworks
- 7 Common Weak Spots Attackers Will Try to Infiltrate Your Cloud Identity Fabric
- Anatomy of a Typical Identity Attack Flow
- 5 pillars of Identity Security with Mini-Action Plans to Get Started in Each Area
- 20 Identity Hygiene Best Practices
It reveals the identity-based challenges plaguing organizations today, addresses the drawbacks of traditional IAM/IGA solutions and takes a deep dive into what’s required to scale identity-centric security across all your IaaS, SaaS, and identity provider (IdP) platforms.
Download the guide and start formulating your identity-centric security strategy today!
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