How can you prevent session hijacking with IAM?
Session hijacking is a common attack technique that exploits the vulnerabilities of web applications and network protocols to gain unauthorized access to user accounts and data. It involves intercepting and manipulating the communication between a user and a server, such as by stealing or forging session cookies, tokens, or IDs. Session hijacking can compromise the security and privacy of both users and web services, and expose them to various risks, such as identity theft, fraud, data breach, or malware infection.
To prevent session hijacking, you need to implement effective identity and access management (IAM) solutions that can authenticate, authorize, and audit the users and devices that access your web applications and resources. IAM solutions can help you enforce strong security policies and best practices, such as using secure protocols, encrypting data in transit and at rest , generating and validating unique and short-lived session identifiers, implementing multi-factor authentication (MFA), and logging and monitoring user activities and anomalies.