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Enterprise Security Magazine | Tuesday, January 04, 2022
“To avoid being hacked by malicious intruders, businesses must maintain basic hygiene, whether large or small.”
Fremont, CA: Organizations worldwide are striving hard to ensure that their digital identities remain secure and unhackable. Many of the current procedures used by business personnel to log in, confirm credentials, and conduct safe internet browsing are becoming inefficient, thanks to the burgeoning threat landscape. Adding to it the growing hybrid culture, it is imperative for workers to have secure authentication in virtual environments. Identity theft and technologies such as deep fakes, on the other hand, are ensuring that safeguarding digital identities remains a big concern. Given the obstacles businesses encounter while establishing digital identities, experts and solution providers in the industry have been developing next-generation solutions to assist organizations and individuals in overcoming the challenges, some of which are listed below.
1. Basic Hygiene
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One of the major issues in 2022 will be the fundamentals, such as timely off-boarding of departing employees, deactivating or deleting orphan and inactive accounts, focusing more on entitlement management, and so on. To avoid being hacked by malicious intruders, businesses must maintain basic hygiene, whether large or small. Organizations should also be open to implementing new technologies that provide improved digital identity protection.
2. Concerns about Cloud Identity Security
The expanding use of the cloud has forced the necessity to keep it secure at all times. In the age of cloud computing, traditional security techniques are no longer deemed enough. As a result, organizations must prosper to adopt a Zero Trust-based approach, in which data and identity serve as new fundamentals to be safeguarded. Inactive identities that can increase system vulnerabilities and expose critical resources to attacks must be removed by organizations. To navigate the complexities and appropriately manage any cloud architecture, it's necessary to carefully examine the total security to identify vulnerable identities and problematic rights.
3. Ransomware Attacks
Ransomware attacks showed little signs of abating this year, and the trend may continue uninterrupted in the coming years. Poorly secured digital identities, a popular target for fraudsters, will remain a major channel for destructive assaults. Organizations should keep this in mind and invest in robust digital identity security solutions to protect all identities at all times.
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