Why Identity Has Become Every Hacker's Favorite Attack Surface
Perimeter security was never the real problem. The real problem is that once perimeter stopped meaning anything, identity became the only thing standing between an attacker and everything inside your organization. And most identity infrastructure wasn't built for that weight. The numbers reflect it. The 2024 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report found that stolen credentials were involved in nearly half of all breaches analyzed. Not malware. Not zero-days. Credentials. Which means attackers aren't breaking in. They're logging in. That shift changes what an identity and access management tool needs to do, and most organizations haven't caught up to it yet. Why Did Identity Become The Target? Networks used to have a clear inside and outside. Firewalls, VPNs, and physical perimeters defined the boundary. Breaching it required real technical effort. Then cloud infrastructure scattered workloads across environments. Remote work dissolved the office perimeter entirely. M...