Managing identities and their access permissions is becoming more complicated. Digital sprawl has led to an explosion in permissions across multicloud environments, and consistent oversight is lacking. As many as 99% of cloud permissions are going unused, and this represents a significant risk for enterprise businesses.

As more organizations transition to Zero Trust security models, traditional identity and access management (IAM) models must evolve in kind. These new models should deliver comprehensive identity and permissions management for any cloud deployment while ensuring security and maintaining end-user productivity. It’s also important to include existing IAM best practices, such as single sign-on (SSO) and multifactor authentication (MFA), while also introducing new solutions, including an identity governance and permissions management solutions. This is more commonly referred to as cloud infrastructure entitlement management (CIEM).