IAM Hygiene Must Be a Priority for Robust Identity-First Security

Managing IAM involves a lot of moving parts.Too often, security teams miss the mark.
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‍Despite understanding the consequences of poor IAM hygiene, some organizations struggle to meaningfully improve it. They might be stymied by conflicting internal priorities or broken processes, or maybe they lack the insights and tools needed to fortify their approach to identity. In some cases, they may have purchased an IAM tool and failed to fully implement that tool’s capacity for identifying vulnerabilities.

‍Regardless of the reason behind poor hygiene, the result is always the same: higher levels of risk. To protect your organizations from a rising tide of increasingly sophisticated threats, a recent report from Gartner® provides advice on how to communicate the risk, stop the creation of hygiene issues and ensure accountability for IAM hygiene.

Download the full report to learn more about what we believe are the key areas security leaders should focus on:

• Improve upon hygiene shortcomings, e.g., over-permissioned accounts, accounts that are created and not used, etc.
• Managing human and non-human entities with an emphasis on security and least-privileged access.
• Resolving process issues that impede the proper maintenance of IAM hygiene.

*Gartner, Prioritize IAM Hygiene for Robust Identity-First Security, Rebecca Archambault, Felix Gaehtgens, 20 June 2024‍

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