Identity Management Day is a way to educate about the importance of securing identity and access credentials
When the police arrive at the scene of a break-in, one of the first things they’ll do is isolate the crime scene and assess its condition. They’re trained to document every single detail: the arrangement of furniture, any strange odors, even the temperature in the home. They also pay special attention to the points of entry: Are the doors intact? Have locks visibly been tampered with? All of these details clue them into the identity and motive of the perpetrator.
Nearly 30% of burglaries are carried out using opened or unlocked entrances. Warning homeowners of the dangers associated with keeping their doors and windows unlocked seems obvious, but clearly not unwarranted. It would be even more obvious to say people should avoid leaving keys to their home laying on their front porch, but this is exactly what is happening online, when hackers use privileged credentials to let themselves into cloud environments. Hackers are no longer breaking in a back window, they’re walking straight through the front door with the keys in their hands.
In the last year, 90% of…
