Identity is the new security perimeter. Whether your assets are hosted on-premises or in the cloud, the security “perimeter” that separates users and data from outside threats can no longer be drawn using network lines. The security “perimeter” to defend between your assets/users and threats is drawn by Identity components of authentication and authorization that span across all your devices, services, hosts, and networks.
Modern cybersecurity threats routinely compromise privileged identities which grant control to corporate and government computing environments. When these malicious attacks are successful, they can gain full access to most or all of an organization’s electronic documents, presentations, applications, databases, and other highly sensitive information or assets. Therefore, it is important for an organization to understand the potential ways unauthorized users could gain Administrator level access.
