Securing Your Identities

In this section, we will shift our focus toward best practices and recommendations for securing the identities within your environment. As already mentioned, your identities are the new perimeter of your network and the keys to all your data. As leaders, you need to commit the time and resources needed to ensure the identities within your environment are protected as best as possible.

If you do a quick Google search on “password statistics,” you will be provided with an overwhelming amount of data on the challenges we face with protecting our users and their behaviors. Traditional authentication methods, specifically password-only authentication, are irrelevant these days. We have an enormous task ahead of us to continue pushing for the modernization of our authentication and to move away from the dependency on passwords. This effort also includes the awareness needed for our users to prevent them from continuing to use bad habits with their...