Take a moment to consider how frequently you authenticate your identity online: checking your email, logging in to your bank account, accessing cloud-based productivity tools, booking a flight, paying your taxes. We confirm our identities so many times every day that things like providing personally identifiable information and confirming a login attempt through our smartphones have become second nature.

These are all reminders that identity is the foundation of cybersecurity — which is why it’s also a major attack vector that can be exploited by cybercriminals. There are many tools that can prevent hackers from using the identities of their victims to infiltrate organizations and steal sensitive data, such as password managers and multifactor authentication.