Cloud Identity and Access Management: Understanding the Chain of Access
Here s where enterprises encounter challenges with cloud IAM and the best practices they should follow to correct these mistakes.
Through 2025, customers will be at fault for 99% of cloud security failures, according to Gartner, and 90% of organizations that don t control public cloud use will share sensitive data in inappropriate ways. This should come as no surprise given the immense complexity of public cloud service offerings and the hybrid and multicloud deployments enterprises gravitate toward.
Organizations must implement cloud ownership guidelines, establish governance policies, and find a way to visualize who has access to their cloud environments to avoid financial loss and data exposure. For example, in a recent event involving a leading search engine, an unsecured server with a removed or expired password gave cybercriminals access to user search queries and location that put customers at risk for