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5 ARGUMENTS TO JUSTIFY
YOUR IDENTITY SPEND
PRESENTED BY
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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. identity spending organization-wide. By connecting
security with each business driver, the organization as
a whole is better positioned to succeed.
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. 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
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
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1. Do more with less: Identity-driven
cost reduction
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