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    • 🛣️What’s Next? How to use Identity Intelligence effectively
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    • Oort Releases GitHub Integration To Extend Identity Threat Detection
    • Oort Recognized Twice as a Sample Vendor in Gartner® 2023 Hype Cycle Reports™
    • Oort's Response Capabilities: Remediate Compromised Accounts with Just One Click
    • Oort Unveils Dashboard, Providing A Single Pane of Glass for Identities
    • Oort’s New Identity Security Dashboard
    • Oort Unveils Identity Technology Ecosystem, Bringing Identity Data out of Orbit and Into View
    • Oort: Your Security Layer On Top Of Okta
    • Populating the Unpopulated: Challenges of Building a Comprehensive User Inventory
    • Protecting IT Help Desk Teams Against Cyber Attacks
    • Protecting Salesforce Accounts from Takeovers and Ungoverned Access
    • Restrict Guest Access Permissions: Best Practices and Challenges
    • Seizing the Communication Opportunity: Aligning Perspectives in Identity Security
    • Session Hijacking in a Post-Genesis World
    • SIEM vs. Security Data Lake: Why it's Time to Rethink Your Security Program
    • Speaking the Same Language for Identity Security: Identify, Protect, Detect, Respond
    • State of Identity Security research reveals 40% of accounts use weak or no form of multi-factor authentication to protect identities
    • Strengthening Identity Controls: Mapping to CIS CSC and NIST CSF Security Frameworks
    • Strengthening Identity Security with Single Sign-On (SSO) Systems
    • Succeeding with Proper Detection for Identity Security: A Comprehensive Approach
    • Taking a Data-Driven Approach to Identity Security
    • The Concerning Prevalence of Weak Second Factors
    • The Crucial Role of an Identity Security Leader
    • Why I am Joining Oort
    • The Quest for a Passwordless World
    • Understanding Azure Active Directory (Azure AD)
    • Understanding the Implications of New SEC Rules on Cyber Incident Disclosure
    • Unlocking the Power of Zero Trust: The Crucial Role of Identity and Oort's Identity Security Platform
    • Respond Even Quicker to Identity Threats
    • What to Look Out For at Gartner IAM
    • 7 Critical Requirements for Securing Third-Party and Vendor Access
    • Best Practices for Efficiently Responding to Identity Threats
    • Announcing our Identity Technology Partner Ecosystem
    • Catching waves and building clouds
    • Cisco Announces Intent to Acquire Oort
    • CISO Perspectives: Eric Richard, HubSpot
    • Defining Roles & Responsibilities for an Identity Security Program
    • Detecting Session Hijacking
    • 8 Things to Look for in an ITDR Solution
    • Enhancing Identity Threat Detection: Introducing Oort’s New GitHub Integration
    • Founder Perspective: Matt Caulfield On Why He Started Oort
    • Founder Perspective: Vision To Reality
    • Four Reasons Why Traditional SIEMs Fall Short For Identity Security Programs
    • How Oort Partners with Duo for Unbeatable Secure Access
    • Governance, Risk, and Compliance
    • How to Find Inactive Users
    • Identity and Access Management and Oort Explained
    • 5 Identity Security Questions Every IAM Leader Needs to Answer
    • Identity security is bigger than just ITDR
    • Identity is the apex threat vector, so why is identity security still a mess?
    • Identity Threat Detection
    • Identity Threat Detection and Response: what you need to know
    • Identiverse 2023: What I'm Looking Forward to & What Not to Miss
    • Interview with Oort: Best Practices for Managing & Protecting Service Accounts
    • Interview with Alex “Sasha” Zaslavsky (Oort Data Science Lead)
    • Interview with Andy Winiarski (Head of Solutions Engineering)
    • Interview with Nicolas Dard (Oort’s VP of Product Management)
    • Introducing our Latest Integration to Protect Identities in AWS
    • Introducing The 2023 State of Identity Security Report
    • Maintaining a Strong Identity Security Posture: Why IAM Hygiene Matters
    • Managing Machine Identities: A Comprehensive Guide
    • Managing Risk In Shipwreck Diving and Security
    • Monitoring MFA Usage and Adoption: Strengthening Your Security Strategy
    • Okta Breach: Why Attackers Target GitHub, and What You Can Do to Secure It
    • Okta Security
    • Oort and Polarity Combine to Provide Instant Context on Identities
    • Oort + Polarity: Instant Identity Context to Power Investigations and Response
    • Oort Announces $15M in Seed and Series A Funding Round
    • Oort Stacks Go-to-Market Leadership Team Following Series A Investment
    • Oort Extends Identity Threat Detection with New AWS Integration
    • Announcing General Availability of the Oort Identity Analytics & Automation Platform
    • Oort Joins Forces with Microsoft Intelligent Security Association to Bring Visibility into Unmanaged Devices
    • Oort Joins the Microsoft Intelligent Security Association (MISA)
    • Building an Effective Identity Security Program: A Comprehensive Handbook
    • Oort Launches Identity Security Platform in Auth0 Marketplace
    • Oort Launches Identity Security Platform in AWS Marketplace
    • Oort Launches One-Click Remediation Actions for Streamlined Identity Security Response
    • Oort Origins and Our Vision for Identity Security
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A dedicated place to share best practices on identity security.

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Identity Security Reading List

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KPIs for
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