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What makes next-generation identity management<\/a> essential? Which capabilities distinguish next-generation identity management from legacy solutions? And why should your enterprise care?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Identity forms the core of modern enterprise cybersecurity. In fact, it may now constitute the digital perimeter keeping external threat actors at bay. Yet so many businesses continue to neglect their own identity management. According to experts, the worst data breaches stem from stolen or compromised credentials, privileged and otherwise, granting unauthorized access.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n What can next-generation identity management offer your business to prevent this?<\/span><\/p>\n For many enterprises, the root of their problems lies with their overreliance on an outdated legacy identity solution. Usually, these legacy solutions provide little more than an Active Directory and a single-factor authentication login. Usually, they can\u2019t provide the visibility, identity governance, authentication protections, or cloud protections necessary for modern IT infrastructures.<\/span><\/p>\n Indeed, legacy identity simply doesn\u2019t have the capabilities to keep up with the rapid scaling and innovative components to environments. Between expanding user bases, third party identities, IoT and mobile devices, and the cloud, legacy identity solutions can\u2019t function optimally.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n After all, almost all of cybersecurity relies on visibility to function; you can\u2019t protect what you can\u2019t see. Yet as more and more users join enterprise networks, keeping track of who has what permissions proves daunting. Moreover, enterprises cling to the notion they can handle the provisioning and deprovisioning processes manually\u2014often in a spreadsheet.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Perhaps then it is no wonder IT teams lose track of users\u2019 permissions or even entire identities in the environment. Indeed, many businesses even lose visibility on their privileged access accounts! These can easily blossom into security problems via insider threats or abuse by external actors exploiting unknown permissions. Poor offboarding can cause orphaned accounts to linger on enterprise networks as a security hole.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Further, poor lifecycle management and visibility can cause business process disruptions as well as cybersecurity problems. Poor onboarding can lead to employees waiting to receive the permissions necessary to perform their jobs. In turn, poor identity governance can delay employees from working on their assigned projects or lead to access creep.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Next-generation identity management works to increase both visibility over users\u2019 permissions and the governance on those privileges. Such solutions can reduce friction in asserting visibility and in monitoring lifecycle management.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Plus, with a next-generation identity governance<\/a> solution, you can carefully delegate what permissions belong to what roles within your organization. Therefore, you can bring in new employees with their needed permissions already in place for their specific job title. And thus, identity governance can reduce friction in the long-term.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Of course, with automated identity governance<\/a>, you can also deal with offboarding promptly with no opportunity for exploitation. Through next-generation identity management<\/a>, you can also monitor each users\u2019 permissions; this ensures any temporary privileges end at the project\u2019s conclusion and any job changes bring subsequent permissions changes as well.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Legacy identity management tends to rely on password-based single-factor authentication. Unsurprisingly, legacy antivirus solutions also tend to suffer more data breaches than other solutions. For a few reasons why:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Instead of relying on single-factor authentication, your enterprise needs to embrace multifactor authentication (MFA) through next-generation identity management. After all, the more factors standing between hackers and your users\u2019 identities, the more secure the latter remains.<\/span><\/p>\n Additionally, hackers won\u2019t bother with strong digital identity perimeters. More often than not, they prefer targeting weaker enterprises with less identity security. Why waste time and resources on a hard target when an equally viable easy one exists?\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Strong enterprise multifactor authentication can comprise of any number of factors, but often include:\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n One of the unique benefits of next-generation identity management over legacy solutions is continuous authentication. Think about it: in legacy solution, you simply need to flash your credentials once before receiving access. Thus, hackers only need to get their hands on an unguarded account to gain total access.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n However, continuous authentication monitors all users\u2019 sessions to determine if their behaviors meet baseline behavioral norms. If they don\u2019t, your solution can request more authentication factors from the user to ensure their validity.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n On the other hand, you can also enact step-up authentication; this activates more factor requests as the sensitivity of the access requests increases. This enables a smoother user experience, coupled with the smoothness contributed by many of the non-intrusive factors.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Next-generation identity management also provides your enterprise access to identity federation. Identity federation enforces common identity security standards and protocols; it coordinates and manages user identities between different identity providers, applications, and portals across your infrastructure. Usually, federation can establish trust via digital signatures and encryption.<\/span><\/p>\n Federation connects different identity management systems together; in a federated system, a central home node or identity provider stores the users\u2019 identities. Therefore, when a user needs to authenticate themselves, the database or application processes the access request through the identity provider. 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Next-Generation Identity Management Starts with Visibility<\/b><\/h2>\n
Multifactor Authentication for Security and Profit<\/b><\/h3>\n
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Identity Federation<\/b><\/h3>\n