Discover how poor identity and privilege management can be leveraged to compromise accounts and
credentials within an organization. Learn how role-based identity assignments entitlements
and auditing strategies can be implemented to mitigate the threats leveraging accounts and
identities and how to manage compliance for regulatory initiatives.As a solution Identity
Access Management (IAM) has emerged as the cornerstone of enterprise security. Managing
accounts credentials roles certification and attestation reporting for all resources is now
a security and compliance mandate. When identity theft and poor identity management is
leveraged as an attack vector risk and vulnerabilities increase exponentially. As cyber
attacks continue to increase in volume and sophistication it is not a matter of if but when
your organization will have an incident. Threat actors target accounts users and their
associated identities to conduct their malicious activities through privileged attacks and
asset vulnerabilities. Identity Attack Vectors details the risks associated with poor identity
management practices the techniques that threat actors and insiders leverage and the
operational best practices that organizations should adopt to protect against identity theft
and account compromises and to develop an effective identity governance program. What You Will
Learn Understand the concepts behind an identity and how their associated credentials and
accounts can be leveraged as an attack vector Implement an effective Identity Access Management
(IAM) program to manage identities and roles and provide certification for regulatory
compliance See where identity management controls play a part of the cyber kill chain and how
privileges should be managed as a potential weak link Build upon industry standards to
integrate key identity management technologies into a corporate ecosystem Plan for a successful
deployment implementation scope measurable risk reduction auditing and discovery regulatory
reporting and oversight based on real-world strategies to prevent identity attack vectors Who
This Book Is For Management and implementers in IT operations security and auditing looking
to understand and implement an identity access management program and manage privileges in
these environments
