Active Directory (AD), a Microsoft Windows directory service, helps maintain a robust security perimeter within enterprise environments. It helps your business enforce security policies, assign permissions and mitigate security risks within the network. Let’s say your business’s IT infrastructure is a fortress, wherein AD acts as the gatekeeper controlling who enters and what they have access to.

Cyber attackers relentlessly scour online resources for vulnerabilities, particularly within software solutions. Despite the best efforts of dev teams and quality assurance processes, maintaining a defensive edge is a relentless challenge. Unfortunately, vulnerabilities persist, especially in trusted software solutions used by companies as the cornerstone of their cybersecurity posture, such as privileged access management (PAM).

Imagine this: a sales representative at your company needs to update customer information in your CRM system. She enters her login credentials, but the system rejects them. After a frustrating series of password resets and calls to IT, she finally gains access. But her ordeal isn't over yet. She still needs to log into several other applications: the marketing automation platform, the customer support portal and the internal communication tool – each with its own unique username and password.

In part two of this blog series, we will look at how One Identity can support SAP environments from an Identity and Access Management (IAM) perspective. As SAP Identity Management (IDM) reaches its end-of-maintenance, customers will need to explore alternatives for their identity management landscapes. Here is a list of some key elements to consider.

If you think data privacy law is a minefield, you’re not alone. At our last count, there were 120 jurisdictions around the globe, each with their own data privacy legislation. Each set of legislation is as complex and intricate as the next. How are you supposed to tame this multi-headed monster? How on earth did we end up here? Let’s look at the current state of global data protection legislation, where it’s headed and what you can do about it.

Identity and Access Management (IAM) is a cybersecurity discipline, so it’s almost trivial to claim that a solid IAM foundation brings critical security benefits for any organization. Fundamentally, IAM allows the right people to access the right resources at the right times, in the right way for the right reasons. Yet IAM projects consistently take a backseat to other, more fashionable cybersecurity initiatives in a lot of organizations, ultimately harming the security posture.

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.