Enterprise attack surface expansion has become a focal point for IT security teams. The relentless pursuit of securing every endpoint and countering new threats with the latest technology is not just costly; it's also unsustainable. Despite these efforts, breaches continue to occur, often through new or unorthodox attack vectors that bypass traditional perimeter defenses.

In today's digital battleground, it seems like a week doesn’t go by where we don’t hear about some kind of data breach involving identity security. It's easy to become desensitized to the constant stream of identity security compromises. Yet, beneath the surface, a silent war is waged against the very essence of our online identities. Each breach is a battle fought on the front lines of cybersecurity.

Risk. It’s more than just an infuriating board game from your childhood. And when identity risk is involved in your cybersecurity landscape – and it will be involved, since identity is one of the most easily accessible and most frequently attacked facets of your IT environment – the potential consequences of its compromise extend well beyond losing control of a fantasy continent on a game board.

In a rapidly evolving cybersecurity landscape, organizations across all industries and sizes face an ever-growing array of sophisticated threats. Privileged accounts, in particular, have become prime targets for hackers, with nearly every major breach in recent years involving unauthorized access. Breaches caused by phishing and compromised credentials (the most common type of attack) cost an average of $4.76M and take almost 11 months to resolve.