Council Post: Five Steps To Build The New Cybersecurity Perimeter: Identity

President and Chief Executive Officer at Insight Enterprises, helping clients manage their business today and transform for the future. If 2020 taught us anything about cybersecurity, it's that strengthening corporate defenses against cyberattacks is increasingly dependent on managing user identities of those who access your network. We've gradually moved in that direction since the birth of the bring-your-own-device movement, which created the need to control access to business data from outside the four walls of the office. The rise of the cloud, edge computing and the Internet of Things (IoT) have led us further along the path, requiring new strategies for managing access to resources across increasingly heterogeneous technology environments. Then Covid-19 triggered a work-from-home stampede.