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2024 Gartner® Prioritize IAM Hygiene for Robust Identity-First Security Report
- Active Directory
- Tenable Identity Exposure
“Most organizations struggle to find the time and incentive to prioritize identity and access management (IAM) hygiene within an IAM program, which opens them up to credential compromise — the leading cause of breaches.”– Prioritize IAM Hygiene for Robust Identity-First Security - June 2024 Gartner®
Your identity stores may be hiding risk you can’t see.
As organizations expand across hybrid environments — from Active Directory (AD) to Entra ID and beyond — identity sprawl and misconfigurations are becoming the hidden pathways attackers exploit. Disconnected accounts, excessive permissions, and siloed visibility expose critical gaps in security.
According to Gartner®, credential compromise remains the leading cause of breaches — and without strong identity hygiene, these risks only multiply as your identity footprint grows.
In this Gartner® report, we believe, you’ll learn how hardening identity is important through:
- Uncovering hygiene issues across sprawling identity stores before attackers do.
- Strengthening visibility into identity risks like orphaned accounts, excessive privileges, and misconfigurations.
- Aligning IAM, security operations, and risk ownership to close dangerous gaps.
- Building a proactive hygiene program that continuously reduces your identity attack surface.
Source: Gartner, Prioritize IAM Hygiene for Robust Identity-First Security, : Rebecca Archambault, Felix Gaehtgens, 20 June 2024.
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