Modern Infrastructure Has A Severe Access Problem
Cyber Defense Magazine, Friday, February 21st, 2025
Modern DevOps and cloud infrastructure has exploded in complexity, and with that complexity comes a big access problem.
Today's computing infrastructure has evolved so fast that it's the main attack target, with roughly 85% of data breaches in 2023 involving servers.
Unfortunately, cybersecurity approaches to managing secure access have not scaled in lockstep with modern infrastructure. What works for traditional IT - perimeter security with VPNs, shared secrets, Privileged Access Management (PAM), IGA, etc. - is incompatible with modern infrastructure, where the ever-changing, ephemeral nature of resources and multiple cloud solutions have vanquished the static network perimeter.