The Identity Visibility Gap: Why IAM Investment Alone Isn't Enough
Security Boulevard, Thursday, June 4th, 2026
Despite heavy IAM investment, credential misuse still dominates breaches because organizations lack visibility into their sprawling identity.
Heavy investment in IAM has not solved credential-based compromise, citing the 2025 Verizon DBIR showing credential misuse remains the dominant path to enterprise breaches.
The root problem is a lack of visibility: enterprises now operate across hybrid cloud, SaaS, developer platforms, and automated workflows where non-human identities vastly outnumber human users.
Hidden gaps include dormant accounts that stay active for years, unrotated machine credentials embedded in scripts, privileged service accounts accumulating permissions, and identities that persist after their associated employees or applications are gone, all creating pathways attackers exploit once a credential is compromised.