In a world of increasing threats, IT security pros are motivated to strengthen security protocols and access to company data “to everything, everywhere.” Unfortunately, this approach often comes with a cost in usability, and can make security an inhibitor to business productivity.
Fortunately, new technologies and approaches exist that can overcome this usability vs. security challenge. Adaptive, risk-based identity and access management (IAM) techniques help IT scale their security posture to reflect the circumstance. IAM is all about making sure that the right people can get to the right resources to do their jobs without exposing those same resources to undue risk from unauthorized parties. Yet, for all its importance, there is an overabundance of IAM projects that didn’t live up to expectations, took too long and cost too much to complete, or even failed outright. But controlling access, managing and securing privileged accounts, and achieving governance are so critical that we can’t simply ignore the fact that it’s hard.