Reducing IAM Attack Surface with IVIP Platforms
🟡 Medium | Source: The Hacker News Modern enterprise identity and access management (IAM) is increasingly fragmented across applications, machine identities, and decentralised teams, creating blind spots known as ‘Identity Dark Matter’ — activity that falls outside centralised IAM controls. Identity Visibility and Intelligence Platforms (IVIP) are emerging as a way to consolidate this visibility and reduce the exploitable attack surface. This matters because unmanaged identities are a primary vector for privilege abuse and lateral movement in cloud environments. ...