Digital transformation has accelerated the speed of business evolution. As organizations accelerate these projects, their IT environments have become dramatically more complex. Hackers and other malicious actors are ready to take advantage of organizations that do not ensure their security postures can scale to the challenges these new complexities create. To meet tougher security demands,…
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How Modern IGA Supports the Zero Trust Security Model
By now, everyone is familiar with the Zero-Trust security model. The main concept behind Zero-Trust is “never trust, always verify.” This means that users and devices should not be trusted by default, even if they are connected to a permissioned network or previously verified. The principle of least privilege within a modern identity governance solution…
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Four Critical Findings from the State of Identity Governance
Omada’s research report State of Identity Governance 2024 queried 551 IT professionals about how their organizations manage identity-related cybersecurity threats, the tools they use and where they deploy them, and what functionality they look for when evaluating an identity governance and administration (IGA) solution. The research uncovered specific deficiencies typical in current IGA practices and…
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A Modern Approach Is Key to Connecting IGA to SaaS Applications
As more organizations migrate to cloud-based SaaS applications, user access management, security, and compliance professionals face a myriad of new challenges. Reports suggest that a typical organization currently utilizes 130 or more SaaS applications. As demands on organizations and budgets grow, SaaS application deployment will grow with them. To address SaaS application-related identity security challenges,…
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Identity Governance Drivers in the 2nd Half of 2024
As they approach the second half of 2024, identity governance managers must reevaluate their priorities to ensure their security posture keeps pace with how their businesses are evolving. In The State of Identity Governance 2024 report, Omada surveyed IT professionals and business leaders from 567 enterprises with more than 1,000 employees to ascertain their ability…
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Modernizing Identity Governance
Nearly every organization today needs a way to have visibility and control into who has access to what. This often times comes in the form of identity management and governance (IMG) solutions. IMG solutions are built around the fundamental principle of providing the right users the right access to the right resources for the right…
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Why Hybrid IT Environments Need IGA
An increasing number of organizations are adopting a mix of cloud-based and on-premises applications – a move which has been accelerated by the need for employees to work remotely. The ever-prescient Gartner saw this shift coming pre-pandemic and predicted that in 2021, more than 75% of midsize and large organizations would have adopted some kind of multi-cloud…
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Beyond Best Practices TWG Brings New Insights and Also… Sharks?
As we celebrate the first-ever Identity Management Day, I had a chance to reflect on the Beyond Best Practices Technical Working Group’s contributions over the past year, and one word came to mind: Creativity. It’s the one skill that underpins nearly every successful identity management team. Whether it’s finding a way to glue together the Active…
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Identity Management Day: What Sharks and Your Identity Program Have in Common
Legend has it that in 1988 the idea for Shark Week was hatched over a round of drinks and documented on the back of a napkin as an awesome (and fun) way to capture more viewers. Seems like it worked: Discovery Channel viewers doubled after the very first Shark Week. Fast forward to 2021, and…
