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Identity Access Management (IAM)
Preferred by Top Organizations
Non-Human Identity Breaches Are Increasing
Streamlining Security for a Leading Financial Institution
A top-tier financial institution faced significant challenges with managing identity and access management (IAM) across a highly regulated hybrid cloud environment. As part of their digital transformation, the organization was moving critical workloads to the cloud, but they struggled with the complexity of tracking and securing thousands of service accounts, API keys, and tokens.
Solution
NexusIAM was implemented to automate the discovery, classification, and lifecycle management of all IAM entities across the organization’s cloud and on-premises environments. NexusIAM’s advanced AI-powered analytics allowed the team to gain comprehensive visibility into IAM entities, assess their risk posture, and ensure compliance with financial industry regulations.
Outcomes
Improved Visibility: The financial institution gained real-time insights into the usage, ownership, and privileged status of every IAM entity.
Compliance Achieved: NexusIAM helped the organization stay compliant with strict regulatory requirements by automating secret rotation and policy enforcement.
Reduced Security Incidents: By eliminating unmanaged IAM entities and improving security posture, the institution saw a 40% reduction in security incidents related to compromised credentials.
Securing Cloud Workloads for a Global E-commerce Platform
A global e-commerce platform with millions of users faced a growing security risk as it expanded its cloud infrastructure. The platform’s cloud workloads relied heavily on IAM entities, such as service accounts, API keys, and credentials for integration with third-party applications. The company needed a solution to secure these identities, ensuring uninterrupted service and protection against credential theft.
Solution
NexusIAM was deployed to provide centralized visibility and automated lifecycle management of all IAM entities. The solution’s seamless integration with the platform’s cloud providers ensured that the platform could secure its credentials across multi-cloud environments while maintaining developer productivity.
Outcomes
Enhanced Security: The e-commerce platform dramatically reduced the attack surface by securing its IAM entities and enforcing Zero Standing Privileges across its infrastructure.
Improved Developer Productivity: Developers were able to work with existing cloud-native tools while NexusIAM handled security policies in the background, leading to a 30% increase in operational efficiency.
Reduced Risk: By automating secrets rotation and vault management, the company avoided potential breaches and minimized operational disruptions due to stolen or leaked credentials.
Identity Access Management Security Navigating New Challenges
No Single Source of Authority
As we engage with customers – across the board, from IAM professionals to CISOs – a common question we come across is: “I use my Privileged Access Management (PAM) solution to manage administrator cloud accounts; why can’t I use it for service accounts, too?” The short answer is that PAM solutions weren’t originally designed with this dual purpose in mind. However, that oversimplifies things. The reality is more nuanced when considering the different requirements and use cases involved. Allow me to elaborate.
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Massive scale
A Identity Access Management (IAM) refers to a digital entity used for machine-to-machine access and authentication. In today’s rapidly evolving enterprise environments, IAMs play a critical role as organizations shift toward machine-centric architectures. As businesses embrace microservices, third-party integrations, and cloud-based solutions, a complex network of IAMs has emerged—one that now outnumbers human identities by a factor of 10x to 50x.
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Not centrally governed
Identity management is a cornerstone of enterprise security, controlling how authorized entities—whether individuals, software, or devices—can access data and perform actions. Traditionally, human identities have been the focal point of identity and access management (IAM). However, as enterprise systems evolve, Identity Access Management (IAMs) have surged in importance, driven by shifts in infrastructure and workload architecture. These IAMs are now a central focus, presenting new challenges to the security landscape.
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Unidentified ownership
Identity Access Management (IAMs) are the cornerstone of secure machine-to-machine and human-to-machine authentication within modern enterprise systems. As innovation drives the adoption of microservices, third-party solutions, and cloud-based platforms, organizations have created a complex, interconnected ecosystem where IAMs are critical to ensuring secure communication. Today, IAMs outnumber human identities by 10 to 50 times, underscoring their importance in the digital landscape.
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Platform Features
Identity Discovery & Security Posture
Identifies and maps all Identity Access Management (IAM), including service accounts, IAM users, API keys, and tokens.
Contextual Insights
Automated Remediation
End-to-End Lifecycle Automation
Automates the processes of provisioning, vaulting, secret rotation, and decommissioning Identity Access Management.