
The identity security game has changed, and we’ve made it easier for attackers to win. Not because they’re smarter or more sophisticated (though many are), but because we’ve handed them the keys. Through unchecked identity sprawl, we’ve given cybercriminals a golden ticket to infiltrate what is arguably an organisation’s most valuable asset: its identities.
It wasn’t always this chaotic. Not long ago, employees needed just one login and a short list of permissions to do their jobs. Today, identities aren’t just users. They are contractors, service accounts, and even IoT devices, tangled across multiple identity providers (IDPs) like Microsoft Active Directory, Entra ID, Okta, cloud platforms, SaaS ...