{"id":591,"date":"2016-03-17T12:21:16","date_gmt":"2016-03-17T16:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/?p=591"},"modified":"2016-04-07T11:38:55","modified_gmt":"2016-04-07T15:38:55","slug":"identity-is-the-new-perimeter-heres-how-businesses-are-adapting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/identity-is-the-new-perimeter-heres-how-businesses-are-adapting\/","title":{"rendered":"Identity Is the New Perimeter. Here&#8217;s How Businesses Are Adapting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/files\/2015\/07\/perimeter.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-592\" src=\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/files\/2015\/07\/perimeter.jpg\" alt=\"perimeter\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/files\/2015\/07\/perimeter.jpg 600w, https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/files\/2015\/07\/perimeter-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a>Here\u2019s something you\u2019ve probably heard before: \u201cThe firewall-defined boundary that used to confine an organization\u2019s IT assets and users has dissolved; <strong>identity has emerged as the new perimeter.<\/strong>\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">That\u2019s the first line of <a href=\"https:\/\/quocirca.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Quocirca<\/a> Research\u2019s \u00a0report <em>Getting To Know You \u2013 Building Online Relationships With Effective Identity and Access Management, <\/em>and it\u2019s a common call-to-action for IAM and <a href=\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/whats-changed-gartners-2015-identity-and-access-management-as-a-service-idaas-magic-quadrant\/\" target=\"_blank\">IDaaS<\/a> services (in fact, Quocirca\u2019s report was sponsored by Ping Identity), but most importantly, it\u2019s true.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Time and time again, we\u2019ve seen organizations that rely solely on firewalls and perimeter-based security fall victim to cyber-attacks that are, at the very least, embarrassing, and at worst, disastrously damaging.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The recent <a href=\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/how-can-iam-help-stop-cyber-attacks-8-best-practices\/\" target=\"_blank\">hack of the federal Office of Personnel Management<\/a> (OPM), for example, was made possible when hackers obtained a credential used by KeyPoint Government Solutions, a third-party contractor that conducts background investigations of applicants for federal jobs that require a security clearance.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">In another example, 2013\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/target-data-breach-started-through-stolen-hvac-contractor-login\/\" target=\"_blank\">infamous Target data breach<\/a> started in a similar manner when hackers stole a network login from an HVAC contractor working for Target Corporation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The problem is clear, and in order to address that problem, Quocirca says that organizations must rethink the way they manage identities. According to the <em>Getting to Know You <\/em>report, just 20 percent of organizations think that their current IAM systems are \u201cfit for purpose.\u201d That means a whopping 80 percent of organizations are lacking confidence in their IAM solutions\u00a0and are looking to modernize.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The trouble, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.infosecurity-magazine.com\/blogs\/is-iam-fit-for-purpose\/\" target=\"_blank\">Quocirca blog post<\/a>, is that many IAM systems purchased as part of a software stack from a vendor like Oracle, CA, or IBM were designed to deal with \u201cthe old way of doing things.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Full replacement of those legacy systems is often difficult or even impossible, so many organizations are turning to a hybrid approach. The average organization has at least two IAM suppliers, according to Quocirca. More often than not, that second system is a cloud-based SaaS system designed \u00a0for &#8220;provisioning users from a wide range of identity sources to other cloud applications,&#8221; says Quocirca. In other words, organizations are hanging onto legacy solutions to handle internal users\u00a0and are adopting cloud-based IDaaS solutions to handle the ever-expanding perimeter of new customers and third-party users.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Quocirca found that\u00a039 percent of respondents to the\u00a0<em>Getting to Know You<\/em> research take a hybrid approach to federated identities\u00a0while 53 percent do so for single sign-on; Consumer-facing organizations showed higher use percentages in both cases.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s something you\u2019ve probably heard before: \u201cThe firewall-defined boundary that used to confine an organization\u2019s IT assets and users has dissolved; identity has emerged as the new perimeter.\u201d That\u2019s the first line of Quocirca Research\u2019s \u00a0report Getting To Know You \u2013 Building Online Relationships With Effective Identity and Access Management, and it\u2019s a common call-to-action [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":592,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[115,62,114,63],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Identity Is the New Perimeter. 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