Top Security and Risk Management Trends 2021, by Gartner

“Identity is the New Security Perimeter”

Sounds familiar? No? Not to worry. Gartner has released a detailed report that dives deep into the hottest security trends in 2021 and beyond. Some trends covered are:

Cybersecurity Mesh - Extending security and control to digital assets outside the network perimeter.

Identity-First Security - Authenticating and authorizing remote users to access network resources.

Managing Machine Identities - Securing machine-to-machine communications with certificate management.

Machine Identity Management - The Need of the Digital Hour

One of the trends that Gartner has highlighted in the report is machine identity management and its importance in digital transformation.

Some key tenets of machine identity management are:

Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Support - To manage the identities of applications and workloads across modern cloud services.

Single-Pane-of-Glass Functionality - To view, manage, and control identities of distributed entities from a single console.

Automation - To automate the lifecycle of X.509 certificates and keys that constitute machine identity.

Integrations - To converge and streamline the various technologies used in identity and access management.

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