How Convergent Identity-Based Security Reduces Risk, Increases Efficiency

In an era where 80% of data breaches involve compromised credentials and privilege escalation, traditional identity and access management (IAM) and privileged access management solutions (PAM) solutions are falling behind. While organizations have invested millions in layered implementations rooted in traditional enterprise approaches, these solutions weren't designed to combat today's sophisticated identity theft and privilege abuse attacks. As real-world deployments evolved through multiple generations of projects, versions, and software changes, they've created a perfect storm: fragmented systems that are complex liability centers - expensive to maintain and challenging to secure. The stark reality? These disconnected systems often create the very security gaps that attackers exploit - from stolen credentials to unauthorized privilege escalation - leaving organizations exposed to both identity and privilege-based threats that existing deployments struggle to detect, let alone prevent. With 44% of breaches involving privilege misuse, organizations can no longer afford to maintain siloed approaches to identity and privilege security.

While identity and access management (IAM) and privileged access management (PAM) are not new approaches, they need to evolve to address today’s dynamic risks and environments. By converging identity and access management and privileged access management platforms, and weaving an identity fabric paradigm, you can move towards a more modern and capable identity-based security architecture, reducing complexity while increasing efficiency. 

Modern Architectures and Deployment Scenarios and Risks

Identity and privileged access management must adapt to changing environments, including challenges that have emerged from an industry-wide move away from traditional on-premises deployments. This departure has brought about sweeping changes to the identity-based security playing field for legacy and segmented solutions, such as:

• Hybrid IT architectures in a platform world
• Cloud and infrastructure spread across physical hardware and software (AWS, Microsoft Azure, serverless, and container)
• Growing, changing identities
• Customers, edge computing, partners, devices, contractors, software and services, and more 
• Everything as a Service
• Digital transformation is changing enterprise IT and driving the “as a service” model, where everything in the IT world can be provided and consumed from the cloud

Traditional, DIY, and disconnected identity and privileged access management and identity-based security solutions remain unequipped with the functionalities required to meet this ever-changing environment head-on. Many organizations are stuck between an outdated identity and access management solution(s) and the requirements from business, government, and compliance that call for these new capabilities. So how do you evolve your systems to meet these new challenges?

Weave an Identity Fabric

A deployment architecture that allows organizations to create new use cases and identity groups very quickly, such as an identity fabric, is a tool you can implement to converge identity and access and privileged access management structures and make them more functionally complete. This identity fabric-powered approach separates architectures from technology by moving away from physical and static on-premises solutions. 

The value of a unified identity fabric approach is that it's hybrid and interconnected by design from day one, enabling organizations to systematically eliminate identity-based attack risks and combat privilege-based threats. The value of a security fabric approach is that it’s hybrid and interconnected by design from day one.  In contrast to the traditional monolithic identity and access management system, your organization can view and grow services in a holistic identity paradigm.

You will not only meet all required current capabilities with this all-in-one security fabric, but it's also capable of being extended and augmented for future use cases and scenarios.  This ensures your organization can maintain comprehensive protection against evolving identity and privilege-based attacks while maintaining business agility. And, functionally, you will move from static identity-based security protocols and deployments to an Identity-as-a-Service dynamic ecosystem.

Future-Ready: Identity-as-a-Service

IDaaS is the newest engine empowering IT and security leaders to move infrastructures like identity and privileged access management to SaaS, bringing the many benefits of cloud economics, reach, and agility.  IDaaS’ convergence delivers all the capability, functions, and advantages of enterprise-grade identity-based security solutions – with the cloud’s cost, upgradeability, and operational efficiencies. IDaaS-driven solutions, such as the Bravura Security Fabric, enable your business to:

• Eliminate cost and complexity
  • IDaaS solutions can help your organization avoid capital equipment expenses, simplify ongoing IT operations, and free up IT leaders and staff to focus on core business and long-term strategic security and technology initiatives.
• Combat advanced threats
  • IDaaS provides advanced credential management and session protection that prevents identity-based attacks before they occur, while enabling just-in-time privileged access based on validated need.
• Accelerate time to value
  • IDaaS is a faster way to bring the value and protection of identity-based security to your organization than conventional physical deployments.
• Enhance UX
  • IDaaS implementations improve user satisfaction and experience by reducing password fatigue and allowing consistent and simplified improvements like MFA and SSO.
• Provide flexibility
  • IDaaS is ideal for hybrid IT models that are cloud and mobile-first environments with a mix of business and personal devices (BYOD) because cloud solutions are more dynamic and not as rigid as on-premises solutions. 
• Reduce risks
  • IDaaS (and identity and access management) solutions can strengthen your organization’s security posture by eliminating unsafe password management practices and critical vulnerability and attack surface for exploitation.
• Eliminate blindspots
  • Consolidating legacy disparate identity and privileged access solutions into one holistic security fabric ensures policies and processes are applied uniformly across your hybrid IT environment.

Identity-as-a-Service faces the challenges of the hybrid IT era and its future risks and opportunities with dynamic plug-and-play capacity.

Convergence For What’s Next

You can stop managing an array of fragmented identity and privileged access management solutions and transform your identity-based security with one unified platform that systematically combats both identity theft and privilege abuse. The modular Bravura Security Fabric includes best-in-class self-service password management, enterprise password management, identity and access management, and privileged access management capabilities that will evolve as you scale.

Dive deeper into how a converged platform creates a comprehensive and future-ready identity-based cybersecurity solution for our customer, the world's largest plant based manufacturer, Flora Food Group. 

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