What steps should organisations take to protect themselves from identity-based dangers?

Threat actors are increasingly using identity as their primary entry point into organisations. Attackers are increasingly using lateral movement and inadequate identity hygiene to target accounts, users, and the identities that are linked to them in order to carry out their malevolent actions.

It is becoming more and more important for organisations to prioritise protecting their accounts and identities as perimeters become more identity-based, threat actors continue to use innovations and technologies that make it easier to log in than to hack in, and the risk of an identity-based attack keeps growing exponentially.

To handle the dangers, both now and in the near future, organisations must adopt a number of fundamental cybersecurity principles pertaining to identities.

It is possible to model the uncanny rhythmic patterns of human and machine behaviour. A possible danger can be identified for notice when variations take place. For instance, this modelling has been used for decades to determine how to prevent fraud on our credit cards. This strategy has only lately been effectively extended to cover all identity-based dangers through the use of modern behavioural modelling algorithms and artificial intelligence.

Machine identities always have a human identity owner, but they can also have several accounts. You can master identity security and reduce the risks in the identity fabric of your company when you begin managing identities rather than accounts and genuinely map them all together. This will assist you in determining which identities are vulnerable, comprehending the blast radius based on accounts, and developing a security model to protect both.