Cyber insurance policies increasingly mandate specific identity security controls — particularly MFA, PAM, and privileged access monitoring — as prerequisites for coverage or as conditions.
Archives: Glossary Terms
Credential Stuffing
Credential stuffing is a cyberattack where attackers use large lists of stolen username/password pairs (from previous data breaches) to automatically attempt logins across multiple websites.
CIEM
CIEM is a category of security tools that discover, manage, and govern entitlements (permissions) across cloud infrastructure — identifying over-privileged identities, unused permissions, and policy.
Certificate
A digital certificate is an electronic document that uses a digital signature to bind a public key to an identity (person, device, or service) —.
Break Glass Account
A break glass account is a special emergency access account with high privileges, held in reserve for crisis situations where normal access methods are unavailable.
AWS IAM
AWS IAM (Identity and Access Management) is Amazon's service for controlling who can authenticate and what actions they are authorized to perform across AWS resources.
Attestation
Attestation (also called access recertification) is the formal process of reviewing and validating that user access privileges are still appropriate — requiring managers or data.
API Key
An API key is a unique identifier used to authenticate a calling application or service to an API — a simple credential that grants programmatic.
Active Directory
Active Directory (AD) is Microsoft's on-premises directory service that stores information about users, computers, and other network resources, providing authentication and authorization services across Windows.
Agentic Access Management
Agentic Access Management (AAM) is a security framework for controlling, monitoring, and governing the access rights of autonomous AI agents — ensuring they operate within.