Gartner IAM Summit 2025: Key Themes and Takeaways
The 2025 Gartner Identity & Access Management Summit focused on a few big ideas: AI in and around IAM, the rise of machine identities, better use of identity data, and emerging deepfake and ITDR concerns, and the push toward passwordless authentication and zero standing privilege. It’s clear that the IAM community now treats identity as […]
Top 10 IDM Security Risks
Compromised Credentials: Stolen usernames and passwords are among the most common and dangerous threats. Excessive Privileges: Users or accounts with more access rights than necessary for their roles. Bad practices include entitlement creep, cloning, and default roles. Partially Offboarded Former Employees: Ex-employees retain some access after leaving the organization (e.g., SaaS accounts, custom apps). Contractors […]
Pre-Breach Mistakes Organizations Make With Cyber Security
Join us for the third installment of our series, 5 Most Common Pre-Breach Mistakes Organizations make with Cyber Security. Last time we talked about Mistake Two: Poor Use of Outside Assesors. Today we’re discussing the third mistake, talking up your cyber security, and not putting those talking points into action. Third Mistake: Touting Information Security […]
4 Fundamental Steps to Cybersecurity Planning Success
“If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail!” – Benjamin Franklin Planning for cybersecurity success may be the biggest obstacle for any organization to overcome. Why? Because planning is usually treated as a ‘bolt-on’ measure and not given the attention it deserves. Done correctly, a plan serves as a framework to define the […]
Why Defense-in-Depth Is Critical to Cybersecurity Strategy
Since the inception of Cybersecurity twenty-plus years ago, the industry has gone through a plethora of iterations. The Internet was initially designed to be an open environment to enable information sharing between academics and researchers. When businesses and government agencies joined the network explosion in the late 1990s, the open environment turned into a security […]
5 Must-Read Cybersecurity Articles, February 2016
The entire cybersecurity industry has been looking at cyberdefense in the wrong way and frankly has used the wrong technologies in the wrong place when addressing it. ~Larry Karisny While the Apple/FBI privacy case is dominating mainstream news headlines – and journalists are getting hacked writing about it – there is plenty going on in the […]