In the 1980’s the rock group The Who, had a hit song: ‘Who are You.” That was rock’n’roll, but what is happening now is a question of, “Is it Real, or is it Fake?” Who are You? In modern digital enterprises, the fastest-growing identity population is no longer human users; it is machine identity. APIs, microservices, containers, cloud workloads, CI/CD pipelines, robotic process automation, and AI agents all authenticate using identities. Each relies on credentials such as keys, certificates
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They say necessity is the mother of invention. As our reliance on digital infrastructure has grown, we have demanded more from our networks: seamless access, automated processes, uninterrupted user journeys, and effortless interoperability. Each improvement has pushed us further toward a hyper-connected, “smarter” enterprise, but at a cost that rarely registers on the risk scale. In the background, facilitating all of this is a new type of workforce, an army of AI bots and agents that keep t
As part of the Enduring Security Framework (ESF), the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the National Security Agency (NSA) have released Identity and Access Management Recommended Best Practices Guide for Administrators. These best practices provide system administrators with actionable recommendations to better secure their systems from Identity and Access Management (IAM) threats.
IAM, a framework of business processes, policies, and technologies that facilitate the
