The Need for Strong Authentication in Today’s Enterprise
Users are increasingly distributed, mobile and varied, requiring enterprises to take a new look at how to establish trust in a user’s identity and control their access accordingly. In the past, most focused on perimeter defenses, putting controls in place to determine who could enter the building, with physical access systems, and who could get into the network, with firewalls and VPNs. Once inside, however, users had fairly unfettered access to all the applications and resources in these facilities and networks.
Now, recognizing the threats from users “inside their walls” – 81% of organizations have experienced a data breach as a result of negligent or malicious employees or other insiders – and watching the walls, themselves, crumble, because of the dynamic, global nature of today’s businesses, many enterprises are re-evaluating their approach to access.