Security News > 2023 > June > Bringing security to account: why identity must be unified

Emergent market forces are swinging back the security pendulum to the identity, causing approaches to IAM implementation to be reinforced.

"It has tended to be overshadowed by more high-profile components in an IT security ecosystem. IAM doesn't headline general conference sessions like edge security or AI threat intelligence might do."

"The physical security boundary has always had elasticity due to the need to support mobile devices," says Thomson, "But in the situation we have now, where a much higher proportion of employees are customarily working far away from their former workplaces, the traditional defensive line has lost relevance. This has elevated the importance of IAM up the enterprise security agenda - identity is the new perimeter edge."

As a result, different vendor solutions run alongside IAM and take care of concomitant tasks - most commonly Privileged Access Management, Active Directory Management, and Identity Governance & Administration.

Thomson adds: "We have clients who come to us and say that they cannot get a cyber insurance policy underwritten without the implementation of our IAM and PAM solution. Increasingly IAM is front-and-center of the areas insurance assessors scrutinize. And they know what they are talking about when it comes to the tech - and have been smart enough to realize that in order to stay properly informed, they should talk to security technology market leaders."

As a result One Identity liaises with the cyber insurance industry, and is investigating ways in which it can work more directly with cyber insurance brokers who need tools to conduct security assessments.

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