{"id":6845,"date":"2022-04-20T08:36:08","date_gmt":"2022-04-20T14:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/?p=6845"},"modified":"2022-04-20T08:36:15","modified_gmt":"2022-04-20T14:36:15","slug":"mismanaged-iam-can-lead-to-data-breaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/mismanaged-iam-can-lead-to-data-breaches\/","title":{"rendered":"Mismanaged IAM Can Lead to Data Breaches"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Without proper identity and access management (IAM) policies in place, organizations run the risk of deploying a wide range of security tools without achieving a comprehensive security stance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This was among the chief findings of a <a href=\"https:\/\/nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Funit42.paloaltonetworks.com%2Fiam-cloud-threat-research%2F&amp;data=04%7C01%7Cat%40vectra.ai%7Caf0c203686504500f1dc08da1d71553b%7Ca6cc66bcf41945c2a9c28ff4ab685f2d%7C1%7C0%7C637854669848748348%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&amp;sdata=wQ4o5oBuAzTgZFbrS%2B5JOSIbnKWLm4UyUd%2Bstz2eHVE%3D&amp;reserved=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">report from Palo Alto\u2019s Unit 42<\/a>, which revealed that misconfigured IAM is opening the door to malicious actors targeting cloud infrastructure and credentials in attacks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nearly all (99%) cloud users, roles, services and resources were granted excessive permissions which were ultimately left unused, according to the report. Meanwhile, 44% of organizations allow <a href=\"https:\/\/securityboulevard.com\/?s=IAM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">IAM<\/a> password reuse and 53% of cloud accounts allow weak password usage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read more at &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/securityboulevard.com\/2022\/04\/mismanaged-iam-can-lead-to-data-breaches\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mismanaged IAM Can Lead to Data Breaches<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Without proper identity and access management (IAM) policies in place, organizations run the risk of deploying a wide range of security tools without achieving a comprehensive security stance. This was among the chief findings of a report from Palo Alto\u2019s Unit 42, which revealed that misconfigured IAM is opening the door to malicious actors targeting [&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":[1914],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-6845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cloud-identity-manager-2","tag-iam"],"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-1Mp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6845","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=6845"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6846,"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6845\/revisions\/6846"}],"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=6845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}