Hackers likely to target IAM warns SailPoint

Companies should consider their identity and access management (IAM) systems as a likely point of attack, according to IAM software supplier SailPoint.

“The easiest way to get into a server room is to break into the key cabinet,” said Darran Rolls, chief technology officer and chief information security officer at SailPoint.

“Likewise, breaking into an organisation’s IAM system will give a hacker access to every IT system within that organisation,” he told the 2015 European Identity & Cloud (EIC) conference in Munich.

For this reason identity-as-a-service (IDaaS) is a particularly big attack surface, he said, because it is connected via the internet to a gateway on-premise.

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