According to https://www.gartner.com/en/documents/3986121/managing-privileged-access-in-cloud-infrastructure, by 2023, 75% of security failures — more than half of what we saw in 2020 — will be caused by insufficient management of identities, access, and privileges. https://www.gartner.com/en/documents/3987655/hype-cycle-for-identity-and-access-management-technologi, CIEM services are “specialist, identity-centric SaaS solutions focused on controlling cloud access risk with administration-time controls for entitlement governance in hybrid and multicloud IaaS.” CIEM solutions are critical for building a cloud security strategy since they adhere to the principle of https://thenewstack.io/what-is-zero-trust-architecture/, the practice of granting designated entities contextual access to cloud data.
CIEMs help businesses develop a solid cloud security strategy by ensuring that identity and resource access are successfully managed across dynamic cloud infrastructures.
CIEM solutions can automatically detect, discover and remedy identity and access management (IAM) issues in cloud entitlements management.