In organizations today, every identity—human or machine—is a potential pivot point in an attack. Most progress in identity security has focused on authenticating people: SSO, MFA, admin lockdowns, automated provisioning. Important steps, but they only address half the identities accessing your systems. The other half—machines like CI/CD pipelines, service accounts, automation tools, AI agents, and…
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Outnumbered and Underprotected: The Hidden Risk of Non-Human Identities
Most security teams have focused their identity governance efforts on managing human access. You’ve got SSO in place. MFA is enforced. There’s a reasonably consistent process for onboarding and offboarding employees. You probably run access reviews on a quarterly basis and, if you’re further along, maybe you’ve deployed a PAM solution to protect privileged user…
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5 Reasons Disconnected Apps Are An Enterprise Risk You Can No Longer Ignore
Companies of every size depend on Identity and Access Management (IAM), Identity Governance and Administration (IGA), and Privileged Access Management (PAM) to secure logins, enforce policies, and meet compliance requirements. These platforms are the backbone of modern identity security. But there’s a problem: they can only secure what they connect to. The apps that don’t…
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Why You Should Say Goodbye to Manual Identity Processes
As revealed in Cerby’s 2025 Identity Automation Gap Report, 46% of security and IT leaders say their organization has already experienced a security, compliance, or operational issue directly caused by manual identity workflow execution. Why do manual identity workflows continue to exist, when the consequences of getting them wrong are so serious and when automation…
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Compliance and Unified Identity Security in Financial Services
With all the sensitive data financial institutions collect, it should come as no surprise that the financial services industry is one of the top targets for cybercriminals. That’s also why compliance with stringent regulations and standards is so important — in fact, it’s essential for doing business. In the interconnected financial landscape, managing multiple point solutions for compliance…
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Why Identity Automation Fails at 96% of Organizations
This blog was originally published by Cerby here. Enterprise security teams have invested billions in identity security infrastructure over the past decade, building sophisticated systems to manage access and monitor risk. But when it comes to executing identity processes and decisions, our latest research reveals that 96% of organizations still rely on manual workflows. …
