jeu. Oct 15th, 2026
Cybersecurity Special · Digital Identities
Growth Investment · p. 56

Digital identities: the control framework

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Allan Camps
Cybersecurity Expert at Keeper Security
Topic

Identity as the new security perimeter in cloud and hybrid environments, with governance of privileges, lifecycle controls, Zero Trust, PAM and non-human identities.

Introduction

As fixed network boundaries disappear, digital identities become the primary control plane for cybersecurity. The challenge is to govern access continuously across users, privileged accounts, service providers and machine identities.

Beginning of the article

Cybersecurity has traditionally focused on protecting infrastructure: networks, servers and applications. This model is no longer sufficient.

As systems have moved to the cloud, become interconnected and accessible from anywhere, the concept of a fixed perimeter has gradually eroded. Today, digital identity has become the primary control plan for cybersecurity.