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As modern businesses across all verticals continue their rapid digitalization, the need to store, process and exchange data securely is becoming an essential factor for any company. However, this is particularly challenging for high-tech companies dealing with highly-sensitive R&D data.

The relentless move towards the digital transformation seems unstoppable. Organizations must secure their trust and reputation in the face of increasing attacks, advances in technology, increased regulation and compliance, and the continued shift to the cloud and cloud services. Unfortunately, not a single week goes by without another large-scale data breach or leak reported by the media – it seems that a company of any size or industry can fall victim to insufficient or ineffective data protection controls.

Many organizations struggle or even fail because they overcomplicate the implementation and extension of their cybersecurity toolset. Most do not have a central approach on security, and often use a set of tools that are not well-integrated with each other.

Die Rolle der Cloud für die Digitalisierung kann kaum überbewertet werden. Doch mit zunehmender Cloud-Nutzung sind Organisationen bezüglich der Zugriffskontrolle für Cloud-Plattformen wie AWS, Microsoft Azure und Google Cloud Platform in Verzug geraten. Zwar bieten diese Plattformen Unternehmen Agilität und beschleunigen Innovation durch neue Services wie Sprachverarbeitung oder konfigurierbare Dialogsysteme, doch oft fehlt es an der erforderlichen Kontrolle, um den Zugriff auf all diese Cloud-Ressourcen ordnungsgemäß zu regeln.

Consumer and Workforce identities are under assault. Cybercrime and fraud are pervasive problems that have only escalated during the pandemic. Even as the number of online and mobile transactions increases, businesses, government agencies, and other organizations are actively searching for solutions to help them minimize fraud and other kinds of cybercrime.

The number of cyber-attacks globally continue to rise. Attacks are growing increasingly sophisticated. The tactics, techniques and procedures that were once only used by well-funded state actors are being commoditized by cybercriminals. State actors sometimes employ tools that were formerly mostly used by cybercriminals. The threat landscape evolves continuously.

2020 has been the year of dispersed workforces and working environments. The impact on existing infrastructure, strategies and legacy technology has been unprecedented. As a result, we embarked on a revolution for Identity & Access Management and a mind-set change for organizations big and small, global or local. Never before has IAM been more present and upfront. In this new world, trusted identities need to be the starting point for all organizational strategies and driving organizational change.

The evolution of cybersecurity protection demands a more nuanced response to providing access to a company’s sensitive resources. Policy-based access control (PBAC) combines identity attributes and context variables to enable sophisticated granting of access to corporate systems and protected resources based on centrally managed policies that ensure consistent access control decisions across the enterprise. Advancement in both business requirements and technology (such as growing use of micro-services), require a better way to control access. In a way that is consistent across all silos,

When it comes to identity management many companies depend heavily on Microsoft Active Directory (AD). This high degree of dependency on one service can become a problem when this service faces an outage. Also, respective of the requirements companies have, all services have certain limitations which are sometimes necessary to overcome. Many cyberattacks are perpetrated via staff endpoint devices (computers, smartphones or even printers). This necessitates a fine-mesh risk management approach with a centralized solution, called Identity Fabric at KuppingerCole.

Most organizations are benefiting from the scalability, flexibility, and convenience of modern cloud services and new, highly distributed hybrid corporate networks. Unfortunately, many have also learned the hard way that defense of these systems and the assets they contain continue to remain prone to and the victim of cyberattacks and other security risks.

Most small and mid-sized businesses rely on Microsoft technology in their IT infrastructure. For the vast majority of larger organizations, solutions such as Microsoft Active Directory also form a vital part of their IT infrastructure. Understanding what is going on in these infrastructures thus is essential. Only then, organizations will be able to react quickly and focused.

Striking the balance between enabling users and administrators to be productive whilst protecting your sensitive systems and data is becoming ever more challenging. Attackers are often one step ahead of organizations, and even those with the most comprehensive security systems and controls in place find that an attacker will discover and exploit their Achilles’ heel.

Fraud is a major cost to businesses worldwide and it is on the rise. In it’s 2019 annual report, the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) put a specific focus on methods such as elder fraught, credit card fraud and confidence/romance fraud, emphasizing the growing occurrence of intentional deception in cybercrime. Companies of all industries face the same challenge: The complex and constantly changing world of fraud detection.

Companies and organizations have strategic decisions to make at the Customer Identity & Access Management (CIAM) front. First, they have to decide whether to invest into a dedicated CIAM solution or to build on existing infrastructure. If there is already a foundation, what should be their next steps to have a mature CIAM strategy in place? If they do not have a CIAM solution, where do they start? Applications, systems, identities tend to be siloed while as a business grows, it’s imperative they are cohesive and well-integrated in order to provide a superior customer experience.

Protecting user privacy has become much more complicated as of late. Organizations must optimize consent rates while ensuring compliance with ever-changing global regulations and frameworks. They must look critically at their own processes to identify gaps or failures to meet privacy regulations. And organizations must find ways to effectively manage consumer requests, meticulously document processing activities and data transfers, and stay on top of a rapidly evolving regulatory landscape. Challenging, yes. But absolutely necessary.

While the concept of zero-trust networking is nearly a decade old, the last few years have seen its popularity in industry discussions grow exponentially.

Microsoft Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) has gained widespread adoption. Coming with Microsoft Azure Cloud as well as Microsoft 365 (i.e. Office 365), it appears in many organizations just because of decisions made outside of the IAM team.