Forbes October 28, 2024
Tarun Thakur is Co-founder and CEO of Veza.
Every company hopes to follow the “principle of least privilege” which says that a company should give the least access possible for an employee to do their job. It’s a core tenet of every cybersecurity program, but no organization comes close and the problem is getting worse each year. IT teams acknowledge that a vast majority of employee access sits unused, and benchmark data from my company, Veza, further backs this.
When it comes to identity, centralized governance was never very practical. The folks who grant access couldn’t know who needs access to what. What choice did they have but to ask an employee’s manager?
It wasn’t much easier for managers, either....
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