Why are organizations moving to an adaptive access management infrastructure?

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Increasingly IT security teams realize that their traditional defenses, such as firewalls and static access policies, aren't very effective against today's advanced threats. Despite the tens of billions of dollars invested in security solutions, breach rates today are the same as they were a decade ago. And as these breach rates remain stubbornly high, the cost of each of them continues to rise. Beyond the rising costs of breaches, separately, organizations continue to consume more cloud-based services, relegating the role of their firewalls into insignificance. In the earliest years of the cloud, when organizations were purchasing infrastructure service (IaaS) solutions to offload systems management, it was common for them to channel communications to them through their firewalls. In other words, IaaS was an extension of their intranet. Today as organizations continue to transition their internal services into SaaS ones, that approach is far less common. Instead, administrators use federation technologies to extend their identity and entitlement repositories for cloud services that support them. Essentially, this means that identity is indeed the new perimeter. While some organizations keep their most sensitive information in-house, it's more common today for them be consumed from a SaaS-based service. The challenge is that without the added protection of firewalls, static access management policies fall short. While it's possible with access policies to lock a digital environment down to a high-security state, it imposes damaging compromises. Restrictive policies frustrate users and drives down their productivity. For B2C/B2B/G2C services, restricitve policies quickly become a consumer inhibitor, pushing them to competing offerings. Conversely, environments that are too easy to move around and consume typically offer opportunities for bad actors to exploit. The better approach is dynamic access control that enables organizations to reduce friction when risk is low while responding to at-the-moment threats with raised security. Beyond the dramatic change in the way information is created and consumed, the volume of sensitive information that needs to be protected has become vast. This past decade's digital transformation has expanded the types of information, including regulated, that is both digital and connected. Adaptive access management allows this information to stay both connected and secure.