Australian identity access management professionals have been urged to entrench identity as a foundation of their organisations’ cyber security posture, as sub-par management of significant exposures, including machine identities, was putting many organisations at risk.
Gartner VP analyst Felix Gaehtgens, speaking at Gartner’s Security & Risk Management Summit in Sydney, argued IAM practitioners should champion investment in mature IAM programs, centred around an identity fabric approach within their organisations.
Organisations could enhance resilience through better IAM hygiene, Gaehtgens said. He warned against allowing tech vendors to lock data into silos and use AI without getting the data right first. One suggestion was to take a product management approach to engaging different stakeholders.
IAM now at the core of a mature cyber security posture
IAM leaders have faced a fundamental shift in the identity landscape over the last few years, Gaehtgens said. This was primarily due to the reality they were now “expected to create centralised control in a totally decentralised world” in order to protect cyber security.
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