Building a Multi-layered Approach to Securing Access

Barely a week goes by without another high-profile breach hitting the headlines. For the enterprises involved, the incidents can feel sudden and unexpected. But for IT security teams tasked with defending against breaches, there’s a feeling of inevitability. Virtually all (99%) IT security decision-makers agree they’ll face an identity-related compromise in the year ahead, according to the 2023 CyberArk Identity Security Threat Landscape Report. If there’s no question attacks will occur, how can we reduce risk by preventing breaches and neutralizing attackers who’ve broken in? Let’s start by acknowledging the challenges:

• Key initiatives, from new products to cloud migrations, are driven by an ecosystem of users, each tied to multiple digital identities used for authenticating and accessing what they need.

• These identities often have far more access than needed to sensitive resources such as enterprise data and critical environments including multi-cloud — meaning anyone can become privileged.

• Often, the only thing standing between these resources, environments and the attackers targeting them are poorly protected credentials such as passwords to web-based applications.

• Meanwhile, today’s identity-centric attack surface keeps expanding — IT security decision-makers expect identities to grow 2.4x in 2023.