“No man is an island / Entire of itself.” This line, gifted to us by the English poet and cleric John Donne, still resonates centuries later in a digital economy where identity is everything — the key to the office, the password to an employee’s computer, or the credentials to access sensitive corporate data.  In this economy, no one is an isolated unit. Every identity is a “piece of the continent,” to use Donne’s words, which means that if any single user is compromised, that puts the greater body in danger as well.  Despite initiatives to protect digital identity from misuse through a discipline known as IAM (identity and access management), a January 2024 survey fielded by CyberRisk Alliance (CRA) finds that IT security professionals aren’t satisfied with current levels of protection.  Seventy-four percent of respondents are now more concerned about their organization’s ability to detect unauthorized access than they were twelve months ago.

Source: SC Magazine