The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) reports that in 2025, 65% of individuals accessed their health records online, 57% used app-based access, and 51% used proxy or caregiver access. Those numbers mean patient identity infrastructure now serves a population that varies…
Identity weaknesses played a material role in almost 90% of the 750-plus incidents Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 investigated in 2025, with 65% of initial access driven by identity-based attacks. This was not solely because those organizations lacked multi-factor authentication (MFA) or security training. Rather, attackers…
Every enterprise call center fraud prevention program faces the same design tradeoff: how much of the identity verification burden should rest on agents, and how much should shift to automated controls? Most organizations still lean heavily toward the agent side. They invest in training, create verification scripts, and assume that…
Large enterprises and government agencies now manage workforce identities across dozens of cloud services and for thousands of employees and third-party contractors who may never set foot in a physical office. This level of sprawl makes identity a critical factor in determining whether an organization’s broader security architecture is resilient…
In July 2025, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) released the final version of Special Publication (SP) 800-63, Revision 4. This update reflects nearly four years of research, two public draft cycles, and close to 6,000 public comments. The revision defines updated Digital Identity Guidelines designed to…
Most enterprises collect more authoritative identity data and risk signals than they act on. They also lack clearly defined relationships between specific risk signals and specific identity fraud types. A device fingerprint that is effective against credential stuffing may be irrelevant for synthetic identity fraud. A phone number check that…
The identity and access management (IAM) ecosystem now spans at least six functional categories, and the relationships between those categories matter more than any single product decision. Security teams evaluating their IAM architecture need to understand where coverage gaps emerge between categories and what questions to ask before consolidating or…
Many organizations do not miss account takeover attacks because they lack controls. They miss them because they interpret the wrong risk signals or reduce useful signals to a simple pass-or-fail outcome. The issue is not only whether a credential, device, phone number, or recovery factor can be validated. It is…
Addressing cybersecurity vendor sprawl is challenging because it is typically the result of reasonable decisions made under real constraints. In identity security, that drift is even easier than in other domains. A new tool can “work” while only touching a siloed component of the identity lifecycle—whether enrollment, login, privileged access,…
Some of the most disruptive breaches in recent years began with nothing more than a compromised credential. Organizations that continue to focus primarily on perimeter controls and point-in-time authentication are defending against an outdated threat model.