Identity and Access Management

Recommended Best Practices for Administrators

By: Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency

Narrated by: Tom Brooks

Identity and access management (IAM) is a framework of business processes, policies, and technologies that facilitate the management of digital identities to ensure that users only gain access to data when they have the appropriate credentials. Beyond the physical users, service and system accounts are also in scope for IAM and critical for IAM administrators to manage within their organizations. Inventorying, auditing, and tracking all of these identities and their access is imperative to ensure that proper IAM, including permissions and active status, is executed on a regular basis. Managing the growing complexities of digital identities can be daunting especially with industry’s push toward cloud and hybrid computing environments; however, the need for IAM is more important today than ever. In recent years, we have seen various nation state-led cyber operations successfully access protected data by targeting the trust established within networks or by exploiting vulnerabilities in IAM products and/or IAM implementations

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