{"id":6841,"date":"2022-04-18T18:55:05","date_gmt":"2022-04-19T00:55:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/?p=6841"},"modified":"2022-04-18T18:55:10","modified_gmt":"2022-04-19T00:55:10","slug":"8-best-practices-to-harden-identity-and-access-management-permissions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/8-best-practices-to-harden-identity-and-access-management-permissions\/","title":{"rendered":"8 best practices to harden identity and access management permissions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Misconfigured identity and access management (IAM) is opening the door to malicious actors that are targeting cloud infrastructure and credentials in attacks, according to new Unit 42 research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Unit 42&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/unit42.paloaltonetworks.com\/iam-cloud-threat-research\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cloud Threat Report: IAM The First Line of Defense<\/a> found that cybercriminals often target identity and access management (IAM) due to several reasons:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Password reuse: 44% of organizations allow IAM password reuse.<\/li><li>Weak passwords (&lt;14 characters): 53% of cloud accounts allow weak password usage.<\/li><li>Cloud identities are too permissive: 99% of cloud users, roles, services, and resources were granted excessive permissions which were ultimately left unused (we consider permissions excessive when they go unused for 60 days or more).<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read more at www.securitymagazine.com &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.securitymagazine.com\/articles\/97446-8-best-practices-to-harden-identity-and-access-management-permissions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">8 best practices to harden identity and access management permissions<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Misconfigured identity and access management (IAM) is opening the door to malicious actors that are targeting cloud infrastructure and credentials in attacks, according to new Unit 42 research. Unit 42&#8217;s Cloud Threat Report: IAM The First Line of Defense found that cybercriminals often target identity and access management (IAM) due to several reasons: Password reuse: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6019,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1900,88],"tags":[149,1345],"class_list":["post-6841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-identity-manager","category-identity-space","tag-iam-cloud","tag-iam-solutions"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Identity_and_Access_Management_Post.png?fit=141%2C124&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p25vfy-1Ml","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6841"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6842,"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6841\/revisions\/6842"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}