Most cyberattacks originate outside the organization. Numerous articles, vulnerability reports, and analytical materials prove this fact. External attacks are usually carried out based on the following scenario: Obviously, it is impossible to provide protection at all stages of an attack using only one type of protection. It is tough to do without a dedicated team and security solutions like firewalls, intrusion detection, antiviruses and more.

The adoption of zero trust is about to change dramatically. In May, the Biden administration announced its cybersecurity Executive Order (EO), stressing the urgency of modernized access and cybersecurity defenses. Consequently, many enterprises can no longer ignore the necessity of investing in zero trust architectures.

SAML authentication is a must for organisations that want to do federated identity and single sign-on. These applications require both sides of the service or application to use a common set of credentials for identification and authorization. This is an effort to reduce security risks, increase the availability of services through more robust authentication, improve reliability by leveraging existing investments in infrastructure, and improve the end-user experience.

Access management is a key element of any enterprise security program. Using policies defined by IT administrators, access management enforces access rights across the network. It does this by designating which groups of users are allowed access to which applications and identifying which user attributes are required to access each application. Problems arise for businesses when they base their access management programs entirely around passwords, however.