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Why Now Is the Right Time to
Reconsider Your Identity Security
Digital Drives Change
A new era has dawned. Nearly every it is difficult for organizations with a variety
business communicates and interacts of apps, systems, and networks to balance
online. Remote and hybrid work has surged user experience with the need for greater
as a result of the pandemic. And many security — especially in light of evolving
organizations are actively moving more industry regulations and mandates.
of their processes to the cloud to sustain The recent White House Executive Order
business continuity and keep employees on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity
connected and productive no matter their Infrastructure is one example of how
location, including:
important Zero Trust is becoming to
• 99% of organizations were using one nations around the globe with governments
or more SaaS (software as a service) calling for higher levels of security
solutions at the end of 2021. to protect critical infrastructure from
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• 94% of today’s enterprises use cloud cyberthreats. Both organizations and
services. governments need a Zero Trust security
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• 92% of organizations had a multi-cloud model to thrive in today’s world. That
strategy in 2021. means taking a no-trust approach to
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cybersecurity and implementing phishing-
Most of us have embraced these digital resistant authentication processes like
trends out of necessity. But we may not have Multi-Factor Authentication to ensure the
initially noted some of the challenges that protection of every person, device, app, and
come with digital transformation. Namely,
data wherever they are located.
Think Beyond Passwords
Managing the influx of new and old user There is no denying that modern businesses
identities and access permissions across need stronger authentication protocols
your organization is challenging. And it has to govern access to critical resources like
not been made easier by cybercriminals company devices, networks, legacy apps,
who are becoming more skilled at stealing cloud services, and even physical entities like
identities, including: buildings and rooms. But if you are unable
to see and manage access policies for every
• 85% of breaches in 2021 involved the employee and customer, security errors
human element.
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• Compromised passwords account for such as weak passwords and system access
oversights can give an attacker everything
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they need to access your data.
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