Contextual Awareness: Advancing Identity and Access Management to the Next Level of Security Effectiveness

The primary focus of modern identity and access management (IAM) practices is to responsibly enable user authorizations for utilizing enterprise applications, data, and IT services in a manner that meets enterprise security requirements while minimizing impacts on end-user productivity. However, carefully maintaining a balance between high-security and low-friction access controls requires solutions that conditionally apply authentication processes that are appropriate to each access event.