Rising Identity Complexity: How CISOs Can Prevent It From Becoming An Attacker's Roadmap
The New Stack, Thursday, February 19th, 2026
Learn how CISOs can combat identity sprawl and credential misuse by transforming IAM from an administrative utility into a proactive, threat-aware defense layer.
Identity has always been the thread that stitches enterprise IT together, but the nature of that identity has changed dramatically. Twenty years ago, identity meant a username and password sitting in a corporate directory. Access was tied to a desktop on a corporate LAN. Identities were relatively static, human, and predictable.