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IAM Best Practices For Cloud Environments To Combat Cyber Attacks

ComputerWeekly, Wednesday, October 30th, 2024

The Security Think Tank considers best practices in identity and access management and how can they be deployed to enable IT departments to combat cyber-attacks, phishing attacks and ransomware

Organisations are constantly looking to identify different use cases to integrate AI into their business processes and accelerate the adoption of generative AI technologies. Companies are also finding ways to build innovative AI solutions to meet this demand. As a result, the usage of cloud infrastructure and, thereby, the global cloud computing footprint continues to grow at an exponential rate.

The Cloud Security Alliance still ranks identity and access management (IAM)-related risks among the top two threats to cloud computing in recent years. Additionally, the Identity Defined Security Alliance surveyed over 500 large organisations and found that a whopping 84% of those organisations were impacted by an identity-related breach last year.

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