9 Common IAM Risks & How To Mitigate Them
sonrai, Tuesday, May 30,2023
If Identity and Access Management is on your mind, you're not alone. Recognizing a weak point and seeking out stronger protections is the first step to securing your environment. Anecdotally, many industry practitioners express IAM to be one of their greatest challenges. Let's explore why that's the case.
Identity and Access Management refers to a security program designed to identify, authenticate, and authorize the access rights of identities and groups to applications, resources, actions, and data. It serves to better protect your data and overall environment from exploitation.
IAM can be deployed on-prem, natively by your Cloud Service Provider, or by third-party tools dedicated to it.