Suspicious Cloud Authentication Activities

 Suspicious Cloud Authentication Activities 

Now more than ever, identity access management (IAM) has become a critical part of cloud security. In 2022 alone, 84% of organizations fell victim to identity-related breaches, with 96% reporting that the breach could have been avoided or minimized by implementing identity-centric security. Without the correct technologies and policies in place (e.g. zero trust and vendor management), identifying anomalous behavior via authentication and authorization can be incredibly tricky. As a result, these attacks often go undetected, as the authentication performed by a bad actor can look the same as a legitimate user, depending on how expansive the IAM framework in place is (let alone if it even exists).

What you need to know: Organizations need to move away from network security in order to better protect and authenticate user identities. Up until recently, however, this was much easier said than done. Certain technologies simply lacked the necessary integration capabilities, limiting an organization’s ability to centrally monitor the overall security of their resources. Now there are countless technologies available that revolve around access control, like multifactor authentication (MFA). To avoid illegitimate authentication on cloud applications, no user or device — whether internal or external to the organization — should be implicitly trusted, and access to all resources should be explicitly and continuously authenticated and authorized.

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