Gain Confidence in the Wave of Emerging Technology with Identity Cloud

Businesses today in Australia are realizing the need for change as technology evolves at a rapid rate. Government agencies and departments are turning from an infrastructure-centric, on-prem, protect-everything model to a cloud-based model. It has been estimated that 75% of Australian government organizations expect to fully transition to the cloud in the next three years, signaling a significant shift toward cloud adoption. And it’s not surprising. Moving to cloud computing can generate numerous benefits that significantly reduce the amount of maintenance effort required to ‘keep the lights on’ and re-focus effort into improving service delivery.

Obstacles shouldn’t get in the way of achieving success in the cloud. Whether challenges include a lack of knowledge and experience, outdated operating models, or disinterest in the cloud within organizations, The Identity Cloud from Saviynt can help achieve a secure cloud strategy. Take a look at some of the benefits of moving to a cloud-based model and how we can help.

Deep Intelligence and Automation

Outdated approaches to identity create static perimeters that don’t allow organizations the flexibility to evolve. This rigid approach leads to poor efficiency, over-provisioning risks, significant costs, and more. By shifting to a single cloud-based platform, organizations can gain stronger visibility of fine-grained entitlements across their entire application ecosystem. Additionally, they can reduce oversight from human error, which improves security and saves money and time in the long run. 

External factors are additionally pushing companies to adapt to new technologies. The worldwide AI boom has played a heavy factor in encouraging government agencies to change. Although there is still a lot to be learned about AI, it shows immense potential for keeping a business’s data secure on the cloud. With the use of AI technology embedded in a cloud-based platform, organizations have the potential to experience:

• Enhanced scalability: Process larger quantities of security data across diverse identity types with greater efficiency. 
• Strengthened security measures: Bolster security controls to proactively mitigate over-provisioning risks. 
• Substantial cost reduction: Automating the detection, restriction, and monitoring of outlier access minimizes human involvement and shrinks overhead.

Overcoming Cloud Security Concerns

Although change for many organizations is on the move, recent research shows that a concerning 60% of Australian security workers believe that the state of cloud security currently needs to be improved, posing a high risk to their businesses. These fears are not unfounded, as the study also revealed that nearly half of all data breaches in Australia originated from the cloud. A proliferation of security tools has attempted to deal with this problem. However, adding more security tools is only sometimes the answer. In fact, adding more tools often makes the problem worse as gaps can emerge between disparate tools. This challenge is compounded in a multi-cloud environment. Each cloud provider has its own security models, including processes for managing identities and privileges. 

Despite the concerns, more and more organizations are turning to identity-based approaches to secure their cloud ecosystem. Modern identity security platforms offer granular visibility and control over an organization’s digital identities—both human and machine— and what they have access to in the cloud. Today’s intelligent solutions identify compromised identities and abnormal access patterns in real-time to mitigate the impact of misuse or malicious activities. But it’s important to keep in mind that legacy, on-premise identity tools will never be up to the task of keeping your dynamic cloud environments secure. 

Not All Cloud Architectures Are Created Equally

Insecure underlying architecture in a cloud provider can lead to various vulnerabilities and security risks. Here are a few examples:

• Inadequate Multi-Tenancy Isolation: In this situation, tenants share the same computing resources without proper isolation, increasing the ability for attackers to exploit shared resources to gain access to other tenants' data or activities.

• Weak Network Security: Data in transit is not encrypted, making it susceptible to interception and tampering.
• Insufficient Storage Security: No encryption is at-rest and weak access controls lead to compromised data confidentiality and integrity.
• Vulnerable Application Security. Insecure APIs used by applications that have vulnerabilities can be exploited, which increases the chances of API attacks. This results in unauthorized access and data leakage.

Saviynt’s Identity Cloud is Architected for Maximum Trust 

Our tenant isolation cloud architecture is based on industry best practices designed to secure our customer’s sensitive information—from initial product development to coding to platform architecture to data transmission and storage. With a dedicated cluster for every customer, customer environments and their data are never shared. Yet they enjoy full SaaS operability with monthly updates delivered automatically and with no upgrade costs and regression worries.

Leveraging Industry-Leading Advanced Algorithms and Generative AI 

With evolutionary machine learning combined with generative AI, Saviynt is revolutionizing how intelligence is used in identity security. The Identity Cloud from Saviynt constantly analyzes user needs and intent, organizational policies, a multitude of risk signals, and more to deliver highly accurate access recommendations through the creation of dynamic peer groups. Saviynt Intelligence includes access to a copilot that leverages this data to help guide access requesters, approvers and administrators through a more intuitive, conversational, and meaningful experience.

Confidence Is Yours For the Taking 

Approach cloud adoption with confidence. With The Identity Cloud, Australian agencies can have full trust that our platform will gain visibility, control, and intelligence, and achieve rapid time-to-value. Discover the benefits of our converged platform by requesting a personalized demo today.

As the world moves toward cloud adoption, the private and public sectors need validated solutions to safeguard privacy and data. Collaboration between regulators and vendors is critical to building a strong defense. This is why Saviynt has completed the IRAP assessment and will participate biennially to ensure continued growth.