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Security excellence in 2021 goes way beyond protecting a simple office border

Identity is becoming the new perimeter, and these IAM tools have evolved to help secure assets as organisations rely less on traditional perimeter defences and move to zero-trust environments.

Share: COPENHAGEN, Denmark, May 17, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Omada A/S ("Omada"), a global leader of Identity Governance and Administration (IGA), has won the following award from Cyber Defense Magazine (CDM), the industry's leading electronic information security magazine: Publisher's Choice in Identity & Access Management. Omada was recognized for Omada Identity Cloud, a SaaS solution for modern identity governance and administration (IGA). Omada Identity Cloud meets the needs of businesses worldwide for secure, compliant and efficient administration of all users', employees', partners'...

May 16, 2021 at 6:28AM With the recent hack of Colonial Pipeline leading to gas shortages on the East Coast, it's clearer than ever why company executives have security as a top priority. Many are implementing an idea known as "zero trust." Just like it sounds, it's a policy of not trusting anyone. In practice, it essentially eliminates all access to a network until a user has been authorized. One of the beneficiaries of the shift has been Okta (NASDAQ:OKTA), a software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider of identity management solutions. Although the company has seen treme...

DEM10 / Getty Images The days of perimeter security acting as the core of cybersecurity defenses are long gone. No organization would be caught without firewalls and antivirus scanners to catch low-sophistication attacks, but the real battle to protect the network has moved to the realm of identity and access management (IAM). Perimeter security has lost importance because organizations no longer have much of a hardware perimeter. Most have moved to the cloud and are rapidly adding apps and services as needed to support their employees and customers in the new world of always o...