Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management (CIEM): A Complete Guide
In the cloud, an identity is no longer necessarily a person. It can be an application calling an API, a workload accessing storage, a service account running an automated process, or a machine interacting with another cloud resource. Each needs permissions to operate, and each becomes part of an access environment that changes as quickly as the infrastructure itself. This has expanded identity security beyond managing users and accounts to governing a much larger ecosystem of human and non-human access.