Modernizing Identity Access Management with Zero Trust

CISOs tell VentureBeat they're taking an increasingly pragmatic approach to modernizing identity access management (IAM), and it starts with reducing the proliferation of legacy apps and endpoints. The goal is a lean technology stack that is more efficient, cost-effective, and robust enough to scale and support their enterprise-wide zero-trust frameworks.

Identities are under siege because attackers, criminal gangs and Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) organizations know that identities are the ultimate control surface. Seventy-eight percent of businesses say identity breaches have directly impacted their business operations this year. Of the companies breached, 96% now believe they could have avoided a breach had they adopted identity-based zero-trust security measures sooner. Forrester has found that 80% of all security breaches begin with abuse of privileged credentials.

Delinea's Identity Security Survey found that 84% of organizations experienced an identity breach in the last 18 months. And Gartner found that 75% of security failures are attributable to human error in managing access privileges and identities, up from 50% two years ago.
Identity protection is at the heart of zero trust
Consolidating legacy IAM systems into a unified cloud platform requires expertise in how the merged legacy systems define and organize privileged access data, roles, and credentials. Professional services teams from leading IAM vendors work with CISOs to preserve legacy IAM data and identify areas of their taxonomies that make the most sense for a consolidated enterprise-wide IAM platform. CrowdStrike, Delinea, Ericom, ForgeRock, IBM Cloud Identity, and Ivanti are some of the leading vendors helping organizations modernize their IAM systems and platforms.

CISOs tell VentureBeat that the costs of maintaining legacy IAM systems are rising, with no corresponding increase in the value those legacy systems provide. This forces IT and security teams to justify spending more on systems that provide less real-time threat detection and response data.

Cloud-based IAM platforms are also easier to integrate, further streamlining technology stacks. Unsurprisingly, the need for more adaptive and integrated IAM is accelerating businesses...

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Modernizing Identity Access Management with Zero Trust

CISOs tell VentureBeat they're taking an increasingly pragmatic approach to modernizing identity access management (IAM), and it starts with reducing the proliferation of legacy apps and endpoints. The goal is a lean technology stack that is more efficient, cost-effective, and robust enough to scale and support their enterprise-wide zero-trust frameworks.

Identities are under siege because attackers, criminal gangs and Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) organizations know that identities are the ultimate control surface. Seventy-eight percent of businesses say identity breaches have directly impacted their business operations this year. Of the companies breached, 96% now believe they could have avoided a breach had they adopted identity-based zero-trust security measures sooner. Forrester has found that 80% of all security breaches begin with abuse of privileged credentials.

Delinea's Identity Security Survey found that 84% of organizations experienced an identity breach in the last 18 months. And Gartner found that 75% of security failures are attributable to human error in managing access privileges and identities, up from 50% two years ago.

Identity protection is at the heart of zero trust

Consolidating legacy IAM systems into a unified cloud platform requires expertise in how the merged legacy systems define and organize privileged access data, roles, and credentials. Professional services teams from leading IAM vendors work with CISOs to preserve legacy IAM data and identify areas of their taxonomies that make the most sense for a consolidated enterprise-wide IAM platform. CrowdStrike, Delinea, Ericom, ForgeRock, IBM Cloud Identity, and Ivanti are some of the leading vendors helping organizations modernize their IAM systems and platforms.

CISOs tell VentureBeat that the costs of maintaining legacy IAM systems are rising, with no corresponding increase in the value those legacy systems provide. This forces IT and security teams to justify spending more on systems that provide less real-time threat detection and response data.

Cloud-based IAM platforms are also easier to integrate, further streamlining technology stacks. Unsurprisingly, the need for more adaptive and integrated IAM is accelerating businesses...