When there is corporate restructuring (like a merger or split), most IT teams often focus on getting emails, files and business applications running in the new environment. And fairly enough, those are the visible priorities, so they tend to receive the most attention.
Unfortunately, in the middle of all that, they end up completely missing the real danger zone: migrating identities.
Identities are often treated as something to tidy up afterwards, once everything else is complete. Unfortunately, that is where many security problems begin. That is because every user account, service account and security group carries permissions that need to be transferred carefully. [Read more…] about How to secure identities across cloud infrastructures
