Identity & Access Management has stepped into the spotlight, now entering the center of modern cybersecurity. With identity being one of the organization’s most valuable and most targeted assets, IAM has evolved into a foundational pillar of enterprise protection and the organization’s overall security posture. No longer confined to IT operations, IAM has become a strategic enabler, providing compliance, business enablement, and security.
Yet in many enterprises, IAM still operates on one side while Cybersecurity sits on the other. The result is an ambiguous, sometimes strained relationship between two disciplines that ultimately pursue the same goal.
In this talk, Charlene (Senior Advisor at KuppingerCole) and Lisa (IAM Competence Owner at Fressnapf/Maxizoo) explore that identities have become a dominant attack vector and a decisive point of failure in today’s cyber kill chain. We examine how proactive IAM controls and reactive security controls are meant to complement one another, and why this might break down in practice.
We highlight organizational blind spots, silos, and ownership gaps that hinder collaboration more than any technical challenge ever could. Finally, we provide concrete ideas on how IAM and Security can form a long-lasting, productive, and meaningful alliance: through shared strategy, shared metrics, and a shared understanding that identity is the new enterprise perimeter.
