In an era where roughly 90% of breaches start with a compromised identity, the need for a transformative and proactive approach is undeniable. Identity sprawl creates blind spots, such as overprivileged access, orphaned accounts, and unmanaged non-human identities.  
 
To combat this risk, organizations must employ comprehensive identity data management across all platforms to understand the exact nature and context of each user and account. This full spectrum visibility is foundational to a mature Identity Security Posture Management (ISPM) capability. Correlation and clean up are the cornerstones of creating rich, accurate, and complete identity profiles feeding a 360-degree view of the organization across employees, contractors, contingent workers, and non-human identities. 
  
By integrating with identity data lakes, ISPM leverages a consolidated data layer to better recognize risk before the threat actor does. Applying proactive controls, policies, alerts, and AI-assisted access review remediation actively reduces the attack surface of the organization.