Identity Hygiene Needs Automation
The cybersecurity industry is realizing that identities need to maintain hygiene to stay ahead of mounting risks. Axiad Mesh helps you find stale identities, orphaned accounts, and over-privileged or dormant accounts; all examples of poor identity hygiene allowing adversaries to “live off the land” and remain hidden.
Challenges in Identity Hygiene and Remediation
Lack of Visibility Is Crippling
Unmonitored Identities Enable Lateral Movement
“Remediating” Doesn’t Need to Mean “Breaking”
The inability to see which identities are critical for operations can severely inhibit productivity and frustrate users. But the inability to detect malicious identities can be catastrophic.
“Living off the land ,” or (LOTL), is the adversary’s practice of leveraging a victim’s own tools, accounts, and processes to dig into systems. Maintaining strong identity controls for human-to-software and software-to-software interactions closes LOTL gaps.
IT operations teams aren’t always sure if an identity is connected to a service account or is required for configuration management. Insight into an identity can mean the difference between managing our risk and breaking our service.
Lack of Visibility Is Crippling
The inability to see which identities are critical for operations can severely inhibit productivity and frustrate users. But the inability to detect malicious identities can be catastrophic.
Unmonitored Identities Enable Lateral Movement
“Living off the land ,” or (LOTL), is the adversary’s practice of leveraging a victim’s own tools, accounts, and processes to dig into systems. Maintaining strong identity controls for human-to-software and software-to-software interactions closes LOTL gaps.
“Remediating” Doesn’t Need to Mean “Breaking”
IT operations teams aren’t always sure if an identity is connected to a service account or is required for configuration management. Insight into an identity can mean the difference between managing our risk and breaking our service.
Automate Identity Hygiene with Axiad Mesh
Make Human and Machine Identities Visible
Correlate Identities and Verify Posture
Quantify Impacts, Both Positive and Negative
Gain OOTB Remediation Guidance
Related Use Cases by Industry
Financial Services
Always favorite targets for cyber attacks, financial services organizations continually increase their identity attack surface through cloud-based tools and services. They need help building identity fabrics that cover more of their digital footprint, are easier to manage, and are tied to risk telemetry.
Oil and Gas Production
Discovery, production, and transportation of oil and gas brings together many hundreds of machine and human identities scattered throughout complex processes. Each identity – in the cloud, on prem, or in the field – represents an attack surface that needs to be tracked.
Health Insurance
Many health insurance companies are a composite of formerly independent agencies and teams who’ve been brought together to share resources, value, and benefits. Highlighting the identity risks they bring along with a proposed merger can prevent fatal blind spots, both technical and operational.
Integrations
Connectors
Axiad Mesh integrates seamlessly with your existing tools.
Resources for Identity Hygiene
The Essential Guide to IdRM
“Almost every organization has a fast-growing, rapidly morphing, and (all too often) poorly defended attack surface: its identity ecosystem. Learn how to map it and how to defend it.”
Gartner on Identity Hygiene
According to the research, “Security and risk management leaders face challenges in prioritizing IAM hygiene, leaving their organizations vulnerable to credential compromise and breaches. This research provides CISOs and identity teams with advice on how to communicate the risk, stop the creation of hygiene issues, and ensure accountability for IAM hygiene.”
Gaining Insight with Axiad Mesh
As companies seek to grow through acquisitions and mergers with other entities, the actual state of the target company's identity security–whether risky or well protected–is too often the last thing to come to light. Axiad Mesh helps due diligence teams get a complete picture of hidden identity risks.
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