Safeguarding an organization from cybercrime has become vastly more challenging given how digitized and, as a result, interconnected the world has become. Adding complexity to this already daunting scenario is the fact organizations have become perimeter-less, often finding they are compelled to grant access to internal systems and data to non-employees (contractors, partners, “things”). And at times, the number of those non-employees with access to sensitive information is greater than actual employees.
While providing access for third-party, non-employees is critical to meeting business objectives, it oftentimes has the unintended consequence of exponentially increasing an organization’s attack surface, increasing labor costs, and creating massive operational efficiency challenges for IT and HR departments.