Organizations today are grappling with identity sprawl. As the enterprise has become more distributed, employees now have access to an ever-increasing number of tools, and they’re setting up accounts in all manner of places.
This is typically being done outside the purview of information technology (IT) teams, so IT lacks full visibility of all the different accounts that employees have created. This is what cybersecurity leaders call identity sprawl. Each one of these accounts is an “identity,” and the IT staff may not have an overview of the data that’s on these various services.