Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

ServiceNow is core to many modern businesses. The platform is cloud-based, AI-first and centralized. As the operational center of the enterprise, ServiceNow offers IT leaders automation opportunities that help optimize workflows, track requests and enforce processes. Naturally, managing so many actions within one ecosystem calls for advanced identity governance and administration (IGA).

Modernize and protect your Active Directory (AD) using Active Roles by One Identity Active Roles version 8.5 provides several highly requested features to fortify and enrich the integration capabilities of Active Roles. These new features bring unmatched flexibility and security to Active Directory environments, supporting customers where they are today and where they want to go in the future.

The end of an era is upon us, as SAP has announced the end of life for their identity governance and administration (IGA) platform — a platform that supported several SAP products. Without this pivotal identity management tool, where are customers to go to protect the digital identities of their organization? And how can they know that any new platform will be trustworthy? SAP hasn’t left their customers in a lurch.

Most identity governance and administration (IGA) programs do a good job answering one question: who should have access to what. The platform provisions accounts, runs certifications, enforces segregation of duties and feeds compliance reporting. After the request has been approved and the account exists in Active Directory, the IGA tool typically stops looking. What happens inside the directory after that is somebody else’s problem.

You can stand up a vault in two weeks. The team at One Identity says that’s about how long it takes to get the basics running, from discovery scans to approval workflows. Two to four weeks of work, and a respectable PAM foundation is in place. That’s not the hard part. The hard part starts the next morning, when actual users start working around the system.

The concept of AI might trigger both excitement and stress for those who spend all their time either using it for efficiency or fighting it as it tries to breach their systems. A massive force of non-human identities that have been summoned to expose the tiniest cracks in an organization’s security is enough to overwhelm any IT team. However savvy, modern security professionals have begun to raise their own versions of AI armies – designed to stop those sent by malicious actors.

Mythos changes the speed of attack. Identity controls decide what happens after. The shift underway For the first time in 19 years, vulnerability exploitation now leads the Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report as the breach entry point. It accounts for 31 percent of incidents, ahead of stolen credentials. Threat actors are using AI to exploit known vulnerabilities in hours rather than months. The Verizon data predates the latest frontier AI advancements.

In a typical enterprise, non-human identities (NHIs) are thought to outnumber human users by at least 50:1. NHIs are various and include: It is estimated that the NHI: human ratio may have leapt to 144:1 as more AI agents were deployed over the last year. CISOs are already alive to the risks posed by orphaned accounts on their systems. They know that automated rotation is required to revoke privileges as soon as NHIs complete tasks.

One compromised privileged account can undo millions in security investments. Attackers know this. In fact, it's the reason privileged access has become the most sought-after prize in the modern enterprise. Gone are the days when getting past the firewall was enough to give an attacker free rein. Widespread adoption of Zero Trust principles, stronger default configurations and better security hygiene have made that approach obsolete. So, adversaries have adapted.

In the ever-evolving cybersecurity landscape, managing access and mitigating risk across complex enterprise environments has never been more critical. The latest KuppingerCole Leadership Compass for Business Application Risk Management has officially recognized One Identity as an Overall Leader. This distinction underscores the One Identity commitment to providing robust, scalable solutions for today’s diverse and difficult IT security infrastructures.