Why Do Security Teams Have to Answer Identity and Access Management (IAM) Questions?
Answering these questions used to be somewhat optional in cybersecurity, but these days, with SaaS and cloud and working from home, the network perimeter has broken down, and user access management is the only thing still connecting all of these pieces in your IT infrastructure.
That's why the first step of almost any hack is an attacker taking over a user account.
It is also why SOC2, NIS, ISO27001, all of standards stress decent user access management.
And it is also the reason why modern approaches to cybersecurity like Zero Trust talk about "minimizing the identity attack surface" and that the term "identity threat detection and response" was created last year.
List of Most Crucial IAM Questions
Challenges in Answering IAM Questions
Navigating user access data in IAM frameworks presents challenges for organizations due to their complexity. There are many reasons why this is hard:
👉 Organisations have small security teams 👉 Organisations don’t have the needed expertise 👉 No budget for an Identity Governance Administration solution 👉 Too much Technical data 👉 Limited reporting by the current IGA suite
Time-consuming IAM processes and budget constraints slow down establishing strong identity governance. Popular IGA suites, while extensive, often lack comprehensive cybersecurity reporting,leaving gaps in assurance for highly mature companies.
Prove That You are In Control of Your Users and Their Access
How to prove that you are in control
👉 8 Categories of identity indicators; 👉 How to choose the right indicators? 👉 Indicators based on the ISO27001-framework;
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[On-Demand Webinar] How to Achieve Mature Access Governance Within Days
In this session, Elimity CEO, Maarten Decat, will give an overview of the essentials of user access governance and will showcase how this approach is successfully applied in practice by industry leaders such as Securitas, the Belgian Railroads and Federale Assurances.
