As organizations are looking to streamline processes and enhance security, pursuing automation in identity and access management is a key area businesses can target. By pursuing automation in identity and access management, IT teams can free up time to work on more important tasks, and reduce the friction required in managing team member and vendor access across necessary accounts, data and applications.

Access control is a fundamental element of your organization’s security infrastructure. Every security officer wants to apply the principle of least privilege, implement a zero trust architecture, segregate user duties, and adopt other access control best practices without harming the company’s workflow. There are several approaches to implementing an access management system in your organization.

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The pandemic created a huge shift in the workforce. Users got up from their desks, went home, and decided to stay there. As a result, users, devices, and data are now everywhere. This new way of working causes those of us in networking and security major challenges. The old castle and moat design no longer works and legacy security tools that worked in the past become ineffective in this new reality.

The content of this post is solely the responsibility of the author. AT&T does not adopt or endorse any of the views, positions, or information provided by the author in this article. Identity and access management has emerged as an essential security element for organizations. A study reveals that 80% of global IT decision-makers have already adopted or are planning to adopt an IAM solution in the upcoming years.

Have you ever heard the saying that the greatest benefit of the cloud is that limitless resources can be spun-up with just a few clicks of the mouse? If so, you would be best served by forgetting that saying altogether. Just because cloud resources can be spun-up with a few clicks of the mouse does not mean that they should be. Rather, prior to launching anything in the cloud, careful consideration and planning are a necessity.