What Is Identity Security Posture Management (ISPM)?

Screenshot of a dashboard addressing today’s challenges in securing identity, highlighting issue counts by category—Authentication, Identity Lifecycle, Privilege & Access, and Hygiene—with summary statistics and filters for issue severity.

Identity Security Posture Management (ISPM) is a security discipline focused on continuously monitoring, assessing, and improving the security of an organization’s digital identities and access controls. ISPM seeks to answer the questions:

Who or what is authorized to access certain internal resources and data?
Do the right identities have that access?
Are there any identities that should not have this access that somehow do?

ISPM provides a proactive security approach, shining light on who or what has access to what, when, and why in real time.

Identity Security Challenges

Credential Compromise and Identity Sprawl

Knowing who can access what organizational data at any given moment is quite the undertaking. And according to recent data, most organizations are struggling.

90% of organizations have experienced an identity-related breach in the past year.

Source: Identity Defined Security Alliance, 2024 Trends in Securing Digital Identities

IAM Complexity Increases Risk and Slows Agility

Complex IAM ecosystems, SaaS migrations, mergers and acquisitions, and multiple identity deployments that solve individual pain points that contribute to “identity sprawl.” Whether it’s large companies juggling multiple tools and applications that require identity data (IAM, IGA, PAM, etc.) or digital transformation projects and platform migrations increasing the number of data silos, the layers of data sources and complexities make it even more difficult to align users and systems.

Put another way, identity sprawl creates a number of factors and situations that increase security risk:

Fragmented identity data – Blind spots and increased risk
One-way data flow – Siloed information and communication
Inefficient privilege management – Heightened risk of identity-based attacks

RadiantOne minimizes these challenges and provides a proactive, preventative approach.

Visibility. Control. Action.

Unified, Clean Data is the Foundation of a Successful Identity Program

A proper ISPM approach breaks down these silos, providing organizations the following:

A real-time single source of truth to connect every identity store once, unifying across legacy and SaaS systems
Consistent, proactive, streamlined regulatory compliance processes and more accurate access reviews
Continuous real-time monitoring to detect and mitigate/remediate risks, leveraging AI-powered analytics for proactive anomaly detection and automated remediation

A dashboard addresses today’s challenges in securing identity, featuring a risk summary with a green, yellow, and red donut chart on the left, a line graph of active vs resolved issues on the right, and a table of controls with risk levels below.

RadiantOne Provides 360° Identity Visibility and Control

Organizations need to engage technologies that handle complex correlation matching logic and can join overlapping identities and data into a unique global profile. Put another way: this represents one centralized view of an organization’s identity data.

RadiantOne empowers organizations to drive an identity-first security strategy that solves these problems by centralizing and standardizing identity data across the enterprise to fuel authentication and authorization decisions.

Explore Platform

Split image: On the left, a digital blue wave pattern hints at seamless RadiantOne Identity Integrations; on the right, hands typing on a laptop keyboard by a window with a blurred outdoor view.

Prevent Identity-Based Attacks. Stay Resilient

See how an identity-first security posture enhances your IAM program and boosts operational efficiency.

Request a Demo