Posture Four — The Three Focuses Enterprises Need for an Identity Access Management Posture

Article 6 of 9 in Building Your Cybersecurity Posture on Medium

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The growing challenge of knowing who is accessing your systems and validating the legitimacy of the request is caused by our failure to protect identities. Threat actors are able to exploit identity access processes is by using identity credentials that have been previously collected. Situation’s like this force organizations to reevaluate identity verification processes, protect their digital assets using more complex and rotating credentials, and shift towards a zero trust operational model.

In this article, I will explain my three focuses for managing your Identity Access Management Posture:

• Focus 1: What an Identity Posture Model looks like as part of an organization’s cybersecurity posture.
• Focus 2: Four custom identity security zones and how to apply identity access patterns access across the organization
• Focus 3: What role does your identity posture play in moving to a Zero Trust security model.

Focus 1: Identity Posture Model

Identity posture management is focused on preventing bad identity system practices though monitoring your organizations…