The Role of Cloud-Based Identities in Cloud Security
CEO Shai Morag writes on Security Boulevard about the new challenges that organizations face after moving to the cloud.
By Shai Morag
Over the last few years , organizations have moved to a multi-cloud way of operating to allow workers to be more productive while ensuring the accessibility and scalability that organizations need to keep business operations flowing. The move to the cloud has also created a major challenge for organizations—managing large numbers of cloud-based identities. Left alone, this can cause serious vulnerabilities and data leakage.
Security Boulevard recently asked cybersecurity leaders including Ermetic co-founder and CEO Shai Morag to weigh in on these changes.
Identities in the cloud include humans but also machine identities. “In the cloud, applications are architected from microservices. Just like people, each microservice has an identity, which is granted entitlements to access data or communicate with other microservices,” explained Shai Morag, CEO and co-founder at Ermetic.
“There are tens of thousands of these machine identities in the cloud, and they, too, must be managed securely.”
Read the full article on Security Boulevard.
