Eighty-one percent of confirmed data breaches in 2018 involved a compromised identity. As passwords are increasingly viewed as security liabilities, Identity Management solutions are picking up the slack. The White House announced plans to harden its identity-, credential- and access-management policies. The IAM area of security is evolving fast, and sometimes hard to navigate key players are using a mix of different definitions and acronyms to describe mostly the same thing. A recent SailPoint Identity Report estimates that 54 percent of organizations have an identity program in place.
Source: https://threatpost.com/goodbye-passwords-hello-identity-management/145025/