How can you tell if you have a vulnerable identity system? For a start, if you answer yes to any one of these 6 vital identity security questions, take immediate action. Your Identity and Access Management systems are in dire need of an overhaul! These 6 symptoms of weak cybersecurity are the best starting point for improving your general risk posture. Once these glaring flaws are addressed, your enterprise can pursue a truly secure perimeter.
Securing a Vulnerable Identity System
The unfortunate fact exists that bad actors constantly probe your systems for any gap in the perimeters. This manifests in social engineering campaigns, attempts to dig into connected third-party systems, or even brute force attacks meant to penetrate “by volume of fire” as it were. The danger of a data breach always exists so long as you have data to breach.
Ultimately, only a comprehensive cybersecurity overhaul informed by a solid understanding of your IAM maturity goals can correct a vulnerable identity system. The best place to start on this route of meaningful action is an identity maturity benchmark. This identity and access management assessment provides a quantified view of your identity fabric. This information helps formulate the roadmap towards your optimal cybersecurity solution.
The next critical step comes from following through on the recommendations of your benchmarking session. Simeio’s model allows enterprises to start with a low-cost identity assessment and scale up to implementation. This means that, even if your internal teams are unable to act upon your improvement roadmap, your enterprise still achieves your ideal identity solution. This goes a step further, with Simeio undertaking ongoing maintenance of your solutions. This ensures that your identity platform, already future-proofed for emergent policies and technologies, stays competitive against fresh cyberthreats.
The specific mechanisms for cybersecurity are broad yet, when implemented correctly, they achieve security without compromising on useability. These include adaptive MFA, automated real-time policy enforcement, and automatic audit-focused data collection. Additionally, a Simeio cybersecurity solution covers an often-overlooked facet of mature identity security: remediation. If a threat ever manages to breach your perimeter, the right IGA and PAM solutions, augmented by automated enforcement, can stop a breach in its tracks.
Contact a Simeio identity expert now and start fixing your vulnerable identity system.
