Security policies and strategies in organizations are a reminder that it’s ultimately about safer business operations. To maintain security, CISOs need to pay heed to extra efforts for advanced measures across the organization.
The evolving cyber threats have forced organizations to introduce advanced security practices, which has led CISOs to handle more devices than ever before. Hackers and threat attackers have become more active in carrying out several high-profile critical cyber catastrophes by taking advantage of security flaws.
Organizations must adopt advanced security approaches and practices to spread cyber hygiene in multiple ways.
Organizations adopting Identity and Access Management (IAM) should consider advanced practices to improve control and access to employees. It’s because simply integrating an IAM solution won’t be enough to secure organizations from cyber-attacks.
Here, CISOs also need to enforce advanced IAM with advanced practices for providing certified access to confidential and sensitive corporate data.
Here are the best IAM best practices for organizations defending against a majority of cyber-attacks:
Require Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)
For scenarios where organizations need an IAM user or root user, they require multi-factor authentication (MFA) for additional security. With MFA, users can have a device that generates a response to an authentication challenge. This is a must to build for every user account required to guard all sign-in processes.
MFA as an advanced practice, ensures that the user involved in the authentication process is legitimate and not an unassociated entity of the organization. MFA is the only thing standing between user accounts and the organization’s sensitive data information that breaks the bridge for hackers to hit security setups. Even when hackers or attackers find the login credentials successfully, the MFA measures will restrict them from gaining access to the user account.
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Ensure Privileged Accounts Are Managed Well
One of the IAM best practices is to limit the root user for everyday usage by users. Organizations should follow the practice, and if the privilege is given to a user, it should be managed appropriately because such accounts hold the organization’s key data.
Apart from this, following the practice, organizations should assign restricted permission levels for performing certain data functions or monitoring data information using logging-in credentials. Permissions will be encrypted and secured for limited users controlled by a security manager.
A Periodic Review and Removal of Unused Users and More
Organizations can control IAM users, permissions, policies, and credentials and can access several endpoints by identifying accesses it has been granted to. This IAM advanced practice will help organizations to have a periodic review of accesses with detailed information and identify inactive users, permissions, credentials, and policies in IAM.
In fact, this practice enables security leaders to use the information in order to refine IAM policies to better adhere to least-privilege permissions. With periodic reviews of the user accounts and their access privileges, the IAM solutions keep the systems highly reliable and secure. Once employees off-board from an organization, their account becomes redundant and unmanned, giving attackers easy ways to access organizational resources, which is dangerous.
Hence, it is critical to perform a periodic check of these accounts and delete them or withdraw their roles and privileges. It helps strengthen the cyber security measures through IAM to increase security and eradicate the chances of cyber-attacks or breaches.
Sturdy Password Program is a Rescuer
Passwords are not enough to build a robust IAM environment. Instead, a sturdy password program is a bridge to saving multiple critical information from falling into the hands of hackers to breach. Security leaders should avoid using the same password for multiple accounts because having all same passwords invite hackers and attacks. For instance, leaders should use complex, lengthy, unique, and untraceable passwords for each account functioning publically.
Organizations having robust password program always acts as a firm pillar in constructing impactful AIM solutions. This AIM advanced practice helps organizations to better avoid threats that are susceptible to falling anytime and every time.
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Cybersecurity policy for identity and access management must be approached with precision and persistence. The threat surface is still evolving. Businesses must regularly invest in official cybersecurity training for their employees to prioritize privacy in all IAM initiatives.
According to Markets and Markets Report Identity and Access Management Market by Component (Solutions, Services) Solution (Data Directory, Identity Lifecycle Management), Deployment mode, Organization Size, Vertical and Region – Global Forecast to 2027, the identity and access management market size projects to reach USD 25.6 billion by 2027 followed by escalating identity frauds and security breaches worldwide. The market records a CAGR of 13.7%, which is a huge take-off sign of IAM best practices by organizations.
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