Orchestration and Automation are Critical for Machine Identitiesbrooke.crothersWed, 07/20/2022 – 15:55
The challenges of identity-based zero trust security
Identity—whether human identities or machine identities—has become the new security perimeter and the new foundation of an identity-based Zero Trust approach to security. The concept is simple: every online entity—whether it is a device, human, software, API, container or a machine—needs to have a digital identity.
With identities becoming the center of security strategies, their number has increased dramatically over the past few years. In fact, the number of machine identities has overcome the number of human identities by a factor of 45:1, according to a recent CyberArk study. These identities create trustful relationships, and allow humans and machines to securely connect to other entities. However, here is the tricky point, these digital identities need to be properly managed and secured, so that they aren’t compromised. It only takes a single compromised identity for an attacker to wreak havoc.
More security products is not the answer, automated certificate management is
The challenge for enterprises is to manage the growing number of human and machine identities. Buying more security products to address the emerging management is not the solution as it creates friction, unnecessary complexity, and siloed procedures. What enterprises need a single solution that can help them orchestrate and automate certificate management across their IT environment—on premises and in the cloud.
With more identities in an ecosystem, more certificates are needed to verify them to build the trust required to safeguard business operations. The problem is that managing these certificates is a hard job to do. Certificates expire and require renewal.
Organizations are still employing manual processes to manage the growing nu ..
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