IAM Maturity Check

The start of a new calendar year is typically the time for reviewing the status of things, and high on the list should be Identity and Access Management (IAM) and the related areas of Identity Governance and Administration (IGA), Consumer Identity and Access Management (CIAM), Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management (CIEM), and Dynamic Resource Entitlement and Access Management (DREAM), which is a paradigm for managing all access of everyone and everything to all resources consistently in a multi-cloud multi-hybrid environment.

The continual cyber-attacks on businesses and data breaches indicates that many organizations need to up their game when it comes to controlling who or what can access their critical business systems and data. It is important to understand that IAM is not something that can be done once and then forgotten about.

Not only are cyber-attack methods continually evolving, but so too is the business IT landscape. It is therefore essential that organizations...