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An access review describes the process of monitoring the rights and privileges of everyone who can interact with data and applications. This includes management of personnel, employees, vendors, service providers, and other third parties that your organization has been involved with. ‍ Also known as entitlement review, account attestation, or account recertification, access reviews are essential to the management, monitoring, and auditing of user account lifecycles.

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When someone impersonates you by exploiting your personal information to perpetrate fraud or gain other financial advantages, this is known as identity theft or identity fraud. Your personally identifiable information includes your name, residence address, email ID, login and passwords, Social Security number, driver’s license number, passport number, or bank number.

Getting hold of a set of working login credentials is the simplest way for a cybercriminal to breach any network, which is why employee passwords are so highly sought-after by threat actors. Thanks to cloud computing, smart devices, mobility and the rise of remote work, organizations have more people and devices connecting to their networks, from more locations, than ever before.

It’s estimated that 63.5 percent of the world’s total population—or 5.07 billion people—uses the Internet today, with a projected 30.9 billion devices connected to the Internet by 2025. (This means even more proving to CAPTCHAs that we’re not robots–good luck picking out all the fire hydrants in the grids!) With more people working from home, combined with a greater reliance on cloud services and ecommerce, the potential for cyberattacks has never been higher.