The Three Stages of Identity Security Maturity
71% of organizations were breached last year. Most of them had SSO, MFA, and regular access reviews already in place.
This paper explains the structural reason why — and maps what an identity program built around risk reduction actually requires, across every identity type, at modern scale.
What You'll Learn
- The reason well-funded identity programs keep producing breach outcomes
- How identity governance shifted from a security function to a compliance function
- A diagnostic framework for accurately assessing where your program stands across three maturity stages
- What Adaptive Trust is and the path to get there
A Category Built for Auditors
Identity governance didn’t emerge from a security mandate. It emerged from a compliance one — and the category was built around satisfying that requirement.
The report traces how that design priority became the foundation of an entire category, and why a model built for compliance consistently falls short as a security control.
Mapping Your Security Program
Inherent Trust, Conditional Trust, and Adaptive Trust map where a program actually stands across six dimensions: trust model, identity coverage, access reviews, NHI governance, risk posture, and the compliance relationship. Most organizations will recognize themselves in Stage 2.
The report includes diagnostic criteria for each stage, a side-by-side comparison, and the data behind why Stage 2 programs continue to produce breach outcomes despite significant investment.
Download the Full Report
Adaptive Trust is where identity security returns to its original purpose: reducing risk.
Download the report to see how you can take your organization into the next phase of identity security.
