Organizations across the globe have felt and experienced the impact of 2020. Some have been able to navigate the changes better than others.
Years of digital transformation efforts were completed within the span of weeks with cloud apps quickly onboarded and cloud platforms being stood up to ensure continuity of goods and services to customers. Enabling workers with the access they needed to be productive was top priority and as a result, security policies may have been relaxed to ensure business and supply chains could continue to flow. The result for some has been a state of over-provisioned accounts, meaning users have been granted too much access – creating a bigger attack vector and more risk.