How to Improve Cyber Resilience with Identity-Centric PAM

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Presented at FutureConTampa 2020 by

Tony Goulding

Cyber breaches are more frequent and impactful than ever. Hardly a day goes by without headlines alerting us to yet another devastating attack. To protect against such breaches, Identity-Centric PAM founded on Zero Trust is in the spotlight, seeing huge growth in adoption.There are many starting points on the path to Identity-Centric PAM. However, all roads still converge on identity. Hackers don’t hack in anymore — they log in using weak, default, stolen, or otherwise compromised credentials. Indeed, Forrester Research estimates that 80 percent of today’s breaches involve privileged access abuse — that is, compromised user accounts that have administrative access to critical systems in the organization.The session will explore how Identity-Centric PAM helps organizations ensure that access to their compute (on-premises or in the cloud), network, DevOps, and data resources is appropriate, sanctioned, compliant, and secure.