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Identity and Access Management Is the New Face of Cyber Security

Internet of Thing

Mar 8, 2018

Internet of things (IoT) is changing much about the world we living from social networks to online purchase, even the way we drive to work. The Technology is evolving at a greater rate worldwide.  This equally challenging security of valuable personal and corporate data from the cyber attacks traditional currency and property risk-management techniques apply along with that backup and archive, network security, endpoint security, and content and web filtering are important security investments for enterprises this year.

The recent survey reports that 82% of enterprises are focusing their investments in IAM (Identity and Access Management) solutions.  The survey further studied that IAM is emerging as a vital security segment among enterprises, as 73% enterprises are planning to invest in this segment over the next two years, in order to gain identity-enabled security for their infrastructure and protect their enterprises from prying intruders. Many companies have recently been targets of such crimes such as the Wanna Cry ransomware that impacted businesses in almost a 100 countries.

Preventing data leakage is a business wide challenge. The more IT professionals to executives to employees at every level of responsibility understand that challenge the more successful a company will be in protecting its critical assets. The ultimate goal is for everyone, at every level, to believe that corporate security is critical, understand the policies and procedures for achieving a secure environment, and implement the necessary activities every day.

As a result, proactive threat intelligence, mobile malware security, and the growing prevalence of cloud access security broker (CASB) software and DevSecOps are some pre-emptive measures being adopted by enterprises to prevent data thefts, implement enterprise security policies, and provide more ownership to developers for creating and monitoring applications.

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