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Date Published
Author
Tarun Thakur
Word count
1167
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

In today's digital landscape, identity has evolved into a critical organization-wide priority for cybersecurity teams, requiring collaboration from multiple teams across the enterprise to solve access challenges and achieve least privilege. The "wild west" of access can only be tamed through a joint effort between Security operations (SecOps), application owners, data owners, cloud engineering teams, governance and audit teams. With 2024 seeing its first billion-dollar breach, organizations need to get a definitive handle on access to reduce risk, improve operational efficiency, and ensure compliance. Identity security encompasses the philosophies for securing all identities, human and non-human alike, during every phase of the access lifecycle, involving multiple departments with distinct but interconnected responsibilities. Security operations teams sit at the frontlines of incidents, charged with protecting sensitive assets and preventing permission sprawl, while app and data owners must continuously review and revoke outdated access rights to maintain least privilege. Governance and audit teams have traditionally applied vast resources to tedious access reviews, leaving them set up for failure without automation. Thriving towards the principle of least privilege is a team sport, and the benefits are felt across teams and the entire enterprise when identity security is placed at the forefront of an organization's key initiatives, including securing non-human identities (NHIs) that now outnumber human identities 17 to 1.