The Rising Threat Stemming From Identity Sprawl

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The Rising Threat Stemming From Identity Sprawl
November 10, 2021
https://www.securityweek.com/rising-threat-stemming-identity-sprawl

The identity sprawl generated by remote working and business digitization is out of control. This is the clear message from a global survey of more than 1,000 IT professionals.

The survey was undertaken by Dimensional Research for One Identity, a provider of unified identity security, and returned similar results across all industry verticals.
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Larry Chinski, One Identity’s VP of global IAM strategy, described the three primary results of the survey (PDF). These are the rapidly expanding and almost unchecked growth in the number of identities in use (sprawl); the large number of different tools used to manage the identities, leading to poor overall visibility; and the need to find a unified approach to identities as a solution.

“We found that organizations have experienced an enormous amount of identity sprawl, especially over the last two years,” he told SecurityWeek. Eighty-four percent of the respondents said the number of identities they manage has more than doubled. Twenty-five percent said the number of identities they manage has increased by a factor of 10 or more. And 95% of the respondents are struggling to manage them.
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The problem is getting worse. Two years ago, it was relatively easy to get good identity protection because everybody came into a central office protected by firewalls and other perimeter defenses. “But when people are out in the remote, you have to manage on top of the identity – and that's where it gets more difficult,” he said. “That's why a unified approach is the best way to manage the identity sprawl and to resolve that fragmented approach to identities.”

There is no one product that solves this problem. “The survey,” concludes Chinski, “describes a paradigm shift and philosophy around cyber security that needs to be employed. The different fragmented existing tools need to be unified. We haven't got the one tool to do that yet. [...]”
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Survey: Identities and Security in 2021
(PDF): https://www.oneidentity.com/docs/2021-identities-and-security-survey-results-white-paper-29725.pdf

Organizations are experiencing identity sprawl
• 25% say the number of identities they manage has increased by a factor of 10 or more
• 84% report that the number of identities they manage has more than doubled
• 51% report they use more than 25 different systems for identity management including 21% that cite using more than 100 different systems
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Today’s fragmented approach to identity security management creates risk
• 95% face challenges managing identities
• 51% say separate applications provide a lack of visibility into access
• 55% report the wide range of applications and identity technologies complicate provisioning and deprovisioning
• 85% say they have employees who have more privileged access than is necessary for their work
• Only 12% are fully confident they can prevent a credential-based attack
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Security professionals see value in a unified approach to identity security
• 62% see value in a unified platform for access and identity management
• 44% would benefit from an end-to-end unification of identities and accounts
• 47% cite automated orchestration across identities and privileged access as helpful in streamlining their organization’s approach to identity management
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