Security News > 2023 > September > How to avoid the 4 main pitfalls of cloud identity management

One of the core benefits of the cloud is the ability to move fast and innovate rapidly, which means teams may just throw in the towel and grant admin privileges to their entire cloud identities instead of tackling the massive deluge of individual requests for access.

Cloud identity management is a real challenge, but organizations are capable of preventing identity risk exposure and identity threats, especially if they avoid the four common pitfalls.

Microsoft's 2023 State of Cloud Permissions Risks report reveals that even though 50% of cloud identities are granted access as "Super admins," only 1% of permissions are used.

Organizations need to first discover cloud identities and associated entitlements to receive an honest and up-to-date inventory of cloud users, resources, groups, and roles.

That's why risk prevention and threat detection are mission critical for cloud identity management.

The first step to avoiding these pitfalls is to better understand your cloud identity environment.

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