Why It’s Time to Take an Identity-First Approach to Security

Many agencies are realizing that their legacy identity-based security solutions are beginning to age out. It shouldn’t be a surprise. Identity solutions have played an essential role in cybersecurity for more than 20 years, with an evolving set of tools and tactics for identity and access management, privilege access management, governance and more. But the earlier generations were not designed to address the complexity of today’s IT environment.

That’s because security capabilities are just one aspect of an identity solution. As agencies increasingly rely on cloud- and software-as-a-service-based offerings, they need to address concerns around scalability and productivity, as well as the emergence of artificial intelligence tools, such as AI agents. Legacy systems don’t measure up.

“Agencies are looking to adopt more modern identity solutions, especially because the demands of their organizations are increasing and they need more agility,” said Khizar Sultan, Vice President of Workforce and IGA Solutions at CyberArk. “And what users are expecting in terms of an experience is also rapidly moving forward.”

In this video interview, Sultan discusses how agencies can adopt an identity-first approach to cybersecurity. Topics include:

• The key attributes of an identity-first approach
• The connection between identity security and the user experience
• The importance of identity security in the use of AI solutions