How to Map Identity Security Maturity and Elevate Your Strategy
The ultimate goal of Identity Security is to provide secure access to every identity for any resource or environment, from any location, using any device. Yet ever-evolving technology and dynamic threats can make executing a comprehensive Identity Security program a complex undertaking. According to the new Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) research report “The Holistic Identity Security Maturity Model,” most organizations (42%) are still in the early days of their Identity Security journeys. Understanding your business’s current Identity Security maturity in relation to its ideal state is vital because, in the words of Henry Kissinger, “If you do not know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.” So, where do you start? What assessment factors matter most? How do you stack up against industry peers and track improvement over time? To help eliminate some of this guesswork, ESG created a data-driven Identity Security Maturity Model that measures maturity levels across four di