Securing the cloud in 2021: 3 steps to cloud-based identity
2020 was a turning point for businesses across the globe as they were forced to accelerate their digital transformation processes and accommodate an unprecedented and rapid shift to remote work. With this, they rushed long standing plans to upgrade cloud applications and services to solve a core set of immediate problems – keeping displaced workers connected without compromising data exchange. Now that we’ve learned this dependency on the cloud will continue to grow, there are new challenges that organizations have to solve in the year ahead – starting with making these cloud infrastructures more secure.
To do this, organizations must reroute the security perimeter to focus on identity. While cloud-based identity can be a complicated concept for a number of reasons, there are a few simple steps organizations can take to evolve their identity access management (IAM) strategies. By moving beyond “effective permissions,” they should instead focus on threats and risks, following a cloud IAM lifecycle approach.