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.

Architect’s Take: Audit your current IAM coverage gaps by mapping all human, machine, and federated identities across your cloud estate — then evaluate IVIP tooling to surface shadow identities and unmanaged service accounts that your existing IAM tooling cannot see.

Original advisory: Shrinking the IAM Attack Surface through Identity Visibility and Intelligence Platforms (IVIP)