Identity Security Posture Management
Identity Security Posture Management is the continuous assessment of identity-related exposure, hygiene, misconfiguration, and access risk across the environment.
- Acronym
- ISPM
- Synonym
- ISPM
Definition
Identity Security Posture Management, or ISPM, is the practice of continuously discovering identities, correlating their access and resource footprints, identifying misconfigurations or excessive privileges, and prioritizing remediation based on real exposure. It extends traditional governance by focusing on posture, drift, hidden exposure, and control gaps across human and non-human identities.
Why it matters
ISPM provides continuous visibility into identity risk that periodic certifications alone cannot deliver.
The Ariovis perspective
Identity security requires visibility into accounts, groups, delegations and attack paths, followed by prioritized remediation. Detection without ownership and action does not reduce exposure.
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Common pitfalls
- A common pitfall is assessing posture only for human identities while ignoring non-human identity exposure.
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