The pandemic has accelerated cloud adoption among businesses as remote work becomes more prevalent and compliance laws become stricter. Many organizations have migrated data to the cloud, adopted multi-cloud approaches, and are adopting cloud-native data solutions. However, with increased cloud adoption comes a growing number of identities to manage, including employees, contractors, partners, service accounts, bots, and APIs. A strong identity foundation is crucial for maintaining access control in this rapidly evolving landscape. Many companies have implemented basic authentication concepts such as single sign-on (SSO), multi-factor authentication (MFA), and cloud-based user directories, but few are enforcing MFA. This has led to a high number of identity-related breaches in recent years. To improve security, organizations should focus on continuous monitoring and tweaking existing solutions while also considering data management and authorization permissions across multi-cloud environments.