5 Identity and Access Management (IAM) Predictions for 2022

October 18, 2021 – Article posted on VMBlog

In this article, GuidePoint Security’s Identity & Access Manager Practice Lead, Kevin Converse, provides 5 IAM predictions for the coming year.

The traditional network perimeter has disappeared and attackers have exploited employees’ corporate accounts to gain access to valuable systems and data. These employee accounts are essentially keys into an organization’s front door as well as every other door inside to move deeper into the network. According to Verizon’s 2021 Data Breach Investigations Report, 45% of data breaches in 2020 involved hacking – and more than 80% of those hacking breaches involved brute force or the use of lost or stolen credentials.

With a historically high number of remote workers and the continued movement of applications and data to the cloud, Identity and Access Management has become central to cybersecurity, with analyst estimates putting the market size between $22-25 billion by 2025.

Additionally, many organizations are starting or have already begun their journey to Zero Trust adoption and the adoption rate will only increase with the recent Executive Order for Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity. Identity is central to a Zero Trust architecture. Identity must not only address the security challenges that many organizations face, but must enable productivity and be transparent to the users to ensure adoption. Read Kevin’s five predictions for the evolution and adoption of Identity & Access Management capabilities.

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