Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

The digital era has spurred organizations to rethink how they protect sensitive data, necessitating a robust and holistic approach to security. Although ISO 27001 is widely recognized as a framework for managing IT security, forward-thinking leaders are discovering that its principles can be extended far beyond IT departments.

This blog has been adapted from a section of 1Password’s ebook: Why SSO is not enough for identity security. To read the complete ebook, click here. Single sign-on (SSO) solutions integrate with a company’s identity provider (IdP) to allow users to authenticate to multiple applications via a single log-in. By reducing the number of access points and employee credentials, SSO reduces a company’s attack surface.

As the software world shifted toward microservices and distributed architectures, the volume and complexity of API traffic have skyrocketed. Unfortunately, so has the number of API-related breaches and cyber attacks. Last year, nearly 44% of all advanced bot traffic online targeted API endpoints, while traditional web applications received just 10% of the malicious traffic. It’s no surprise that 57% of organizations admit to having suffered API-related breaches in the past two years.