Simple Secure Identity Management Verv IAM

Verviam is a really secure identity management system. And yet we are witnessing a slow-motion trainwreck of modern identity management. We’re watching, in real time, the collapse of the 2008–2018 IDAM paradigm:

The finance sector is still playing XP-era access control with 2025 adversaries. For example, banks think they have IDAM because they bought an IAM product. They don’t understand that identity didn’t keep up with the attackers who now generate 10M fake device fingerprints per hour. Meanwhile banks cannot even send a contextually accurate MFA email — the pinnacle of 1998 security. We are not imagining it: the entire industry is failing upward on its own paperwork.

Identity isn’t a checkbox. Identity risk detection is broken. Anything relying on behavioural tracking is already obsolete. Compliance frameworks are hollow if attackers bypass them with a single session-binding exploit. “Adaptive MFA” is meaningless when attackers control the device context. And the real answer is profiling application behaviour, not people. What we’re witnessing isn’t a local glitch — it’s systemic failure of an industry that replaced security architecture with PowerPoint.

✔️ brittle MFA ✔️ Google-style behavioural telemetry ✔️ giant compliance matrices written by committees ✔️ “zero trust” in brochures, zero clues in implementation ✔️ a belief that logs = security ✔️ a fetish for device signals while attackers happily emulate them	✔️ endless “step-up auth” that fails on delivery ✔️ automated credential-stuffing AI ✔️ real-time session hijack ✔️ deepfake onboarding ✔️ endpoint mimicry ✔️ API-to-API impersonation

IBM Cost of a Data Breach Report 2024              Zero Trust Security Reference Architecture              Cloud Migration Security Guide

Nya Murray, Chief Security Architect, 12th February 2022	Security Principles that I think are essential: - Network Segmentation - At least one anti-DDoS measure - API Authentication and Authorization - Encryption and Secure Key Management - Software Defined Perimeter at the Network Layer

What is Best Practice Zero Trust Cybersecurity?

Originally, Zero Trust Network (ZTN) concepts were developed by the US Department of Defense (DoD) in the early 2000s while defining Global Information Grid (GIG) Network Operations (NetOps) Black Core routing and addressing architecture, part of the DoD’s Netcentric Service Strategy. Over time, this concept evolved within the DoD intelligence and security communities into the current ZTN/SDP framework and test lab1 . Around the same time, Forrester, a market research company that provides advice on technology began promoting ZTN as a worthwhile consideration for enterprise security teams. Today, Zero Trust has grown widely in adoption, as well as scope.

According to Forrester, there are three main concepts: - Ensure that all resources are securely accessed no matter who creates the traffic or from where it originates - A least privilege strategy that enforces access control to eliminate temptation to access restricted resources. - Continuously logging and monitoring user traffic for signs of suspicious activity.

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Information Resources  Software Defined Perimeter and Zero Trust   Cloud Application Security Architecture  Cloud Migration Security Guide Identity Management Landscape Cloud Security Standards: What to Expect and What to Negotiate V 2.0 Cloud Customer Architecture for Securing Workloads on Cloud Services

Backdoors in network monitoring, scan and exploit accelerating, executive phishing, ransomware profits booming, the signs have been there for years. The question is, what are we doing about it?

According to the IBM Data Breach Reports of 2020 - 2024, there were over 500 organizations per annum with a serious data breach - increasing costs to on average $4.88 USD - main causes were insecure data storage, insider threats, compromised credentials and platform vulnerabilities.

Around 80% involve customers’ Personally Identifiable Information (PII). This is in the context of a complex security environment - cloud migration, increasing use of DevOps and infrastructure build automation, increase in remote working.

On a positive note, increasing security incident response capability reduces the costs of data breaches. Still, the focus has to be on protecting the identity credentials and implementing best practice network, platform and application security - this means Zero Trust principles and a ZT maturity strategy to go from holes in the bucket to an impermeable enterprise.

Applications are only as secure as the encapsulated identity data. Verv IAM offers identity services for people, applications and devices. Verv IAM Identity as a Service (IDaaS) provides enterprise data security for end users over the public internet. Private data has to be secured to be European Union GDPR compliant.

Prior to the issuing of identity tokens, all assets are vulnerable. Verv IAM encrypts private data in the browser. Real data protection ensures only the account holder ever sees private data unencrypted. No complex protocol exchange security vulnerabilities. Authentication revolution!