The Critical Role of Identity Security in Enabling Zero Trust

The Chief Security & Trust Officer at Veza discusses the challenges organizations face when implementing a zero-trust security strategy. These include managing permissions, proliferation of identities, and access across multiple platforms. Key aspects of identity security that need to be addressed for successful zero-trust implementation are real-time monitoring and control of privileged access, enforcing least privilege across various platforms, managing user entitlements in SaaS applications, securing access to data platforms, streamlining identity governance processes, and managing non-human identities. The role of identity security is crucial as it forms the foundation for granular access control and continuous monitoring. To navigate these complexities, organizations need strategic partnerships with providers offering unified views of all identities and permissions, continuous monitoring, intelligent access controls, automated remediation capabilities, support for a wide range of platforms, applications, and data repositories, and scalability to meet the needs of growing organizations.