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5 ARGUMENTS TO JUSTIFY
YOUR IDENTITY SPEND
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pending on secure infrastructure is vital to protect any
company’s plans for revenue generation and business
expansion. But when increasing focus and budget for security
initiatives, CIOs and CISOs are faced with competing revenue-
generating priorities across the business.
And when it comes to identity spend – which today make up less
than 9% of the average security budget, despite its potential
to prevent the 80% of data breaches caused by compromised
credentials – there’s often a communication gap between the value
of security infrastructure and key business initiatives.
Armed with an understanding of the following five key business
drivers and how identity feeds into them, technology leaders can
better shift the balance in their favor and make a stronger case
for increased identity spending organization-wide. By connecting
security with each business driver, the organization as a whole is
better positioned to succeed.
1 Do more with less: Identity-driven
cost reduction
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Companies are always looking to lower
their operational costs, and one key way
to accomplish this is by making teams,
processes, and tools more efficient so that
they can focus on their core competencies.
By adopting cloud technologies, an
organization can offload maintenance costs
from expensive legacy systems as well as the
time spent on addressing system outages.
This also sets IT teams up with a regular
schedule for updates and maintenance that
they can prepare for, without disrupting their
day-to-day work. n
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