In the ever-changing cybersecurity landscape, Identity and Access Management stands as the cornerstone of an organisation's digital asset protection.
IAM solutions play an essential role in managing user identities, controlling access to resources and ensuring compliance.
Frequently seen as a single sign-on solution, IAM enables users to log in once to access all the applications to which they are entitled.
IAM goes further than SSO, since it also acts as a universal directory, simplifying the management of accounts from various sources, while supervising access rights beyond the authentication stage.
In operational terms, IAM facilitates identity and access management by providing IT administrators with the tools they need to efficiently and securely manage users' digital identities and access privileges.
Moreover data centralisation makes identity and access management solutions attractive targets for attackers.
A successful IAM access could open the door to interconnected applications.
This IAM solution offers seamless application integration and single sign-on to simplify access to resources.
JumpCloud is particularly suited to organisations seeking to effectively manage access to a diverse range of resources, from applications to operating systems.
These user portals simplify the experience by providing easy, unified access to the resources needed.
IAM administrators are responsible for assigning unique identifiers to each user, as well as administering the associated access rights.
Access management requires robust authentication mechanisms, including the use of secure passwords, two-factor authentication, or other advanced authentication methods.
An attacker who gets hold of a session cookie can then gain access to an account without authenticating, bypassing the login, password and MFA steps.
API Tokens play a central role in Identity and Access Management, providing a secure method of authorising and authenticating applications, services or users within integrations.
Security policies are a set of rules and guidelines that define authorizations and access restrictions for users, applications and services within an IT environment.
Every manipulation of these permissions needs to be monitored, as attackers can use them to access unauthorized resources.
IAMs enable centralised management of application access.
Users can be authenticated centrally, and access rights are managed consistently, independently of specific applications.
Access rights are defined at application integration, and operate in conjunction with security policies and user groups.
Here is an example of detection for which a user tries to access several applications in a short space of time.
This Cyber News was published on blog.sekoia.io. Publication date: Thu, 21 Dec 2023 08:43:05 +0000