One risk IAM administrators are very familiar with is having a lack of control over credentials. Once credentials that grant privileged operations are lost or shared without permissions, they can be used to give unauthorised people elevated access to resources. A reasonable prevention strategy is to use a Just-in-Time (JIT) access model to make…

The password has been much maligned since its creation, and deservedly so. Even Fernando Corbató, the MIT computer scientist who created the password, said it had become “kind of a nightmare.” However, Corbató could not have conceived of the hundreds of passwords we now use and the proliferation of complex rules to overcome the weakness of the…