Have you ever asked yourself why there are so many news articles describing identity theft, business email compromises, phishing campaigns, deepfakes, and so on? The reason behind this is the shift in the IT field and the introduction of the cloud.
In the past, all employees came to work in the company building where they had a computer with pre-installed applications and all resources they accessed were most frequently located in the basement of the same building. At the same time, there was also a limited number of servers exposed to the internet. Therefore, few options for threat actors to penetrate the premises of the organization. If you secured the applications opened to the internet and configured the firewalls, your business was mostly secure from cybercriminals.
In the last few years and especially in 2020, we witnessed a major shift towards the cloud. In the context of cybersecurity and threats, this caused a shift in the paradigm. Suddenly, we accessed corporate resources remotely, outside of the haven of corporate network, over the (unsecure) internet. Our identities were no longer limited to on-premises environments. We obtained cloud identities. That is why your focus as a business or security professional should also change from on-premises oriented security to identity-oriented security. The most important phrase to remember is: “Do not trust, always verify”.
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