Top 8 Cloud IAM Best Practices To Implement
Search Security, Thursday, February 1st, 2024
Cloud adds a level of complexity to identity and access management. Be sure to follow these cloud IAM best practices to prevent identity-related security issues.
Many security experts view identity as the new perimeter due to the proliferation of the cloud. As such, organizations need to implement cloud identity and access management best practices to secure applications and data outside the traditional network. Not all security professionals are comfortable with cloud IAM, however.
As organizations adopt more cloud services, they face some unique IAM challenges. One of the more pressing problems is the rapid growth of various identities associated with cloud services. The more cloud services in use, the more identities provisioned into these service provider environments. This is problematic for tracking, monitoring and controlling cloud accounts, as well as for accessing cloud resources