Secure Access for the Identities Driving Your Key Initiatives
What’s the connection between transformation and threat? While external actors are responsible for 83% of breaches,let’s look beyond the perpetrators and focus on the identities under attack. Often the risks link to the second- and third-ranked causes of identity compromise: remote/hybrid work and use of third-party contributors (both at 44%).
It’s no coincidence these variables rise to the top. Both internal and external users, working from a wide range of locations and devices, collaborate daily on initiatives such as cloud migrations in critical environments. Meanwhile, each user amasses multiple digital identities to access the resources needed to perform their jobs — often through applications. This results in a number of challenges for IT security teams, including:
• In most cases, users have far more access than needed, including the ability to take risky actions with customer data, financial records and more.
• Often, the only thing standing between sensitive resources and attackers are poorly protected credentials such as passwords.
• Credential-related risks keep growing — organizations use 75 SaaS applications on average and believe this number will increase by 68% in the next 12 months.
• IT security decision-makers expect identities to grow 2.4x in 2023, expanding an already porous attack surface.
