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# The CISO Guide to Identity Security

##### A Practical Playbook for Stopping Identity-Based Breaches Across Cloud, SaaS, and AI

**90% of breaches now involve identity.**

**As organizations scale across IdP, IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS — and adopt AI — identity has become the primary attack surface. Human users, service accounts, API keys, OAuth tokens, vendors, and AI agents are creating visibility gaps that traditional tools can’t close.**

**This guide gives CISOs a clear, actionable framework to reduce identity risk, unify posture management and real-time detection, and secure human, non-human, and AI identities before attackers exploit them.**

**What You’ll Learn**

- **Why identity is now the #1 breach vector — and where traditional tools fall short**
- **How to unify ISPM + ITDR for full-spectrum identity visibility**
- **How to detect OAuth abuse, privilege escalation, and shadow AI in real time**
- **Quick-win priorities to reduce identity risk immediately**

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