Data Security for Zero Trust World
Cloud-based applications play a vital role in fulfilling productivity and operational needs in the enterprise. However, as new services are added to an organizations’ cloud estate, it becomes more difficult to gain unified visibility into cloud access events, morecomplex to comply with regulations and more onerous for usersto remember multiple credentials. And with cloud applications protected, by default, only with weak static passwords, the risk of a data breach rises.
Access management is very important when it comes to managing access to cloud resources. Nowadays, a person typically has to access numerous cloud apps throughout the day. This is hassle for both users and IT: Users have to remember countless passwords; while IT need to endlessly reset forgotten passwords. The solution to this problem is SSO: By having one credential for all cloud apps, users can easily login once to several apps while IT saves precious time over password resets.
Cloud applications are excellent at providing organizations the best technology at a quick time to value, zero maintenance overhead and infinite scalability. The immediate fulfillment and instant productivity provided by cloud apps comes, however, with a price tag. IT departments lose visibility into who is accessing what application, when—and what authentication method is being used.
Over the years, you may have heard a lot about access management. In fact, we tended to use the terms “authentication” and “access management” pretty much to mean the same thing. But in fact there are differences between the two. While authentication validates a user’s identity, access management determines that a user has the permission to access a certain resource and enforces the access policy that has been set up for that resource.
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The digital technology wave has simplified and streamlined the way that we do business, but it has also put corporations at risk. Data is currency and hacking is profitable. The target of many security breaches is not just financial data—it includes customer data, employee data, engineering designs; essentially any digital record can be stolen and sold.
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