ESG Analyst Report: The future of Application Security is Access Orchestration by Pathlock

ABSTRACT

Organizations on a path to zero trust are re-examining their default user and shared access control models. Mission-critical applications and systems that run the business operations such as Enterprise Resource Management (ERP), Human Capital Management (HCM), and Customer Relationship Management (CRM) have undergone tremendous change just as with cloud-native, SaaS applications. When it comes to access orchestration, the future is unifying—access governance, data protection, and application security across all business-critical applications the future of Application Security.

Overview
Compliance is an increasingly complex, critical business function. Even the best organizations in the world struggle to balance adherence and changes in regulations, while trying to retain business agility and enable digital security transformation. People-related tasks and access-related risk tools are often siloed and abundant and yet provide very little comprehensive visibility and much less automation to be audit-ready. Cross departmental collaboration is required to manually stitch together their GRC programs. You only need one failed audit to realize this approach is unsustainable. Compliance and Zero Trust (ZT) Zero trust is not a product, but rather a strategy or model that assumes there are no perimeters or safe zones, no safe users
or trusted devices or applications, and therefore there needs to be zero trust. One of the primary tenets of a zero trust strategy is the principle of least-privilege access, which is fundamental to reducing both internal and external threats to organizations. The principle of zero trust is that “only the minimum necessary rights should be assigned to a user that requests access to a resource and should be in effect for the shortest duration necessary and then relinquished.” Regardless of what stage of technology and security maturity organizations are in today, interpreting this principle one user at a time, one resource at a time, one policy or regulation at a time, and based on a vague notion of risk and duration is extremely difficult to do. Interpreting Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) and applying segregation of duties (SOD) into business processes and user access workflows requires a solution that integrates with all financially relevant applications (custom and commercial) to be effective at surfacing policy violations that can result in financial loss and preventing the risky behaviors that can lead to data loss.

Pathlock’s unified access orchestration platform brings a breadth of integrations, depth of monitoring across all controls related to user access, sensitive data, and application security.