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Privileged access management

• New tech steers identity and access management evolution

  IAM is evolving to incorporate new technologies -- like cloud-based services and containerization -- promising more secure, granular management of access to company IT assets. Continue Reading

• Words to go: Identity and access management security

  IT pros must keep up to date with rapidly changing identity technology and access threats. Help protect IAM security by getting familiar with this list of foundation terms. Continue Reading

• privilege creep

  Privilege creep is the gradual accumulation of access rights beyond what an individual needs to do his job. In IT, a privilege is an identified right that a particular end user has to a particular system resource, such as a file folder. Continue Reading

• How to find an MSP to protect you from outsourcing IT risks

  Check out what questions to ask MSPs to make sure they have the right security systems in place to protect your organization against outsourcing IT risks. Continue Reading

• identity and access management (IAM)

  Identity and access management (IAM) is a framework of business processes, policies and technologies that facilitates the management of electronic or digital identities. Continue Reading

• Definitions to Get Started

  • privilege creep
  • identity and access management (IAM)
  • role-based access control (RBAC)
  • access control

  • federated identity management
  • principle of least privilege (POLP)
  • bimodal IAM (bimodal identity access management)
  • identity governance

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• role-based access control (RBAC)

  Role-based access control (RBAC) is a method of restricting network access based on the roles of individual users within an enterprise.Continue Reading

• access control

  Access control is a security technique that regulates who or what can view or use resources in a computing environment.Continue Reading

• Advances in access governance strategy and technology

  Recent advances in IAM policy, strategy and technology are raising companies' ability authenticate identities and manage access to their systems and data.Continue Reading

• federated identity management

  Federated identity management (FIM) is an arrangement that can be made between multiple enterprises to let subscribers use the same identification data to obtain access to the networks of all the enterprises in the group.Continue Reading

• CISSP Domain 5: Cloud identity management and access control

  From cloud identity and access management to physical access control, this study guide will help you review key concepts from Domain 5 of the CISSP exam.Continue Reading

• principle of least privilege (POLP)

  The principle of least privilege (POLP), an important concept in computer security, is the practice of limiting access rights for users to the bare minimum permissions they need to perform their work.Continue Reading

• Biometrics and beyond: Online authentication techniques get personal

  Biometrics and behavioral analysis is taking hold as security pros search for authentication tools to thwart increasingly aggressive and innovative hacking attacks.Continue Reading

• Managing access to keep privileged users' credentials secure

  Privilege creep is a constant threat. It's why privileged user management must be part of any comprehensive security plan and always at the top of an infosec pro's to-do list.Continue Reading

• Test your privileged user management knowledge

  Test your proficiency in privileged user management. Take this quiz to determine your ability to keep privileged access secure across your organization.Continue Reading

• IAM strategy: Update to work with new technologies

  Your organization needs to make decisions about its IAM strategy in order to keep up with the new technologies its deploying. Steps to take begin at the policy level.Continue Reading