4 Key Trends From The Gartner IAM Summit 2023
VentureBeat, March 21st, 2023
Identity is the new network perimeter. In a world powered by cloud computing, every human and machine identity, whether it exists on-premises or in the cloud, needs to be protected to prevent a breach. Yet the Gartner IAM Summit, which began yesterday in Grapevine, Texas, highlights that most organizations still have a long way to go.
Gartner senior director analyst Rebecca Archambault's 'The State of IAM Program Management, 2023' talk suggested that enterprises have an average IAM maturity score of 2.4 out of 5.
Archambault also suggested that by 2026, 70% of identity-first security strategies will fail unless organizations adopt context-based access policies that are continuous and consistent.
At a high level, organizations need to course-correct by applying three strategies: