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Spotlight on Oleria

By Dan K. Anderson vCISO and On-Call Roving Reporter, CyberDefense Magazine

Q&A with OIeria CEO Jim Alkove:

Identity is the keystone to the future of cybersecurity and a critical area for companies to focus on because
it's where attackers are moving. Today 80% of all breaches involve compromised identities. Abusing valid
accounts is also cybercriminals’ most common entry point.

Essentially, attackers are no longer just hacking in – they’re logging in. And they are doing so because
identity security is one of the most challenging and under-funded areas of cybersecurity, leveraging
legacy systems that can’t keep up with today’s modern cloud- and SaaS- centric organizations.

Even with a large budget and security team, it was difficult for me as a CISO to answer the questions of
who has access to what, how that access was obtained, and how it's being utilized. This gap is one of
the biggest weaknesses facing organizations today, so it’s no wonder that bad actors have chosen to
focus here. Security teams are challenged by the lack of access visibility and control due to the limitations

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