Identity Resilience! Identity a Crucial Element in Cyber Resilience

Identities are the cornerstone of your digital services, encompassing key information about individuals, data, and devices. As businesses and government organizations increasingly rely on digital services, the exposure of this critical information to cyber threats has become a major risk.

Digital transformation, cloud migration, remote work and DevOps have fueled the proliferation of identities, both in number and type. Each identity – whether it’s human or machine – represents a path for attackers to gain access to an organization’s most valuable assets. 

In today’s environment, protecting your digital identities is not just important—it’s essential for safeguarding your operations, reputation, and compliance.

Before we get to Identity Resilience let’s quickly define Cyber Resilience.

Cyber resilience is an organization's ability to prevent, withstand and recover from cybersecurity incidents. An Organization's Cyber Resilience Program Ensures their Ability to Continue Business Outcomes Despite Challenging Cyber events with 'little to no downtime'

Identity is the new Perimeter at the same time Identity is a Primary Attack vector in All/Most of the Breaches. Thus It becomes a Magnifying reason for Identity to be given a Forefront Seat in an Organizations Cyber Resilience Program. If an organization’s core identity is breached , then recovery is a long shot and at times impossible. In Short Identity Resilience becomes key for your Cyber resilience Success.

Identity Resilience Lifecycle has 4 Phases

1) Phase 1: Identity Threat Exposure Analysys  

2) Phase 2: Secure your  Identity Realm

3) Phase 3: Identity Threat Detection and Response

4) Phase 4: Identity Recovery & Post Breach Forensics

Recovery is one of the Core Aspects in an Identity Resilience Program. 

For Example, an attack has exploited the Active Directory and cripppled the Organization. Another Example is a Ransomware attack that has taken down your Domain Controllers. In this case, recovering your AD forest can drag on for days or even weeks, risking malware re-infection in the process. Your identity Resilience Program Should enable you back in business in minutes or hours rather than days or weeks. 

May Sound like there are tons to do or how to Achieve this? Dont worry, We are here to help you.

We at Magnalyst Consulting, Based on the Vast Experience our Consultants have Gained from Numerous CyberSecurity and Identity Projects Coupled with our Interactions with Industry Veterans, we can help you Build Your Identity Resilience program

Reachout to us @ aali@magnalyst.com