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Stop Managing Identities, Segment them
Instead.
By Sagie Dulce, VP Research, Zero Networks
A Brief History of Identity Management
For as long as there have been identities, there have been solutions trying to manage them so that
privileges won’t be accidentally or maliciously leaked.
It started with passwords, or in other words: a secret. Unsurprisingly, these secrets tend to get leaked,
shared, abused, stolen or simply turn out to be not so secret to begin with (Password123 and others, you
know who you are).
As mainframes gave way to client-server architecture, IT admins stopped managing accounts locally and
started using various centralized directory solutions. LDAP technology – mainly Microsoft’s Active
Directory – became the dominant technology for managing identities. While Active Directory remains the
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