2020 Changed Identity Forever; What's Next?
For all the chaos the pandemic caused, it also sparked awareness of how important an identity-centric approach is to securing today's organizations.
Nearly overnight, the COVID-19 pandemic left business leaders in 2020 scrambling to support a workforce that had suddenly gone almost entirely remote. Simultaneously, as the number of telecommuters grew, so did cloud spending, which accelerated two of the last decade's leading technology trends. Underpinning it all was the ability to provide secure identity and access management (IAM).
Identity and access management reemerged as a strategic focus during the pandemic because it is a natural outgrowth of cloud adoption, an increasingly remote workforce, and the disappearance of the traditional network perimeter. With many workers operating entirely out of the office, the ability to securely utilize cloud solutions was even more critical than it had been previously — making protecting and proving user identity at the front end paramount.