Identity is often referred to as the Achille's Heal of cyber secure.  With forged or stolen identity, an attacker can access, unchecked, just about any digital asset or pathway, with ease.  Those "credentials" are the veritable "keys to the kingdom" in the global digital economy and they are the number one target of cyber thieves and hackers the world over.  Identity Access Management (IAM) is the technology-based response to securing digital access points and ensuring that "Jill" is actually "Jill" and "Jill" only has access to the accounts, data and systems that she is authorized to access.  As you would expect, IAM is one of the hottest areas of innovation in cyber security and the focus of my blog this month for RSA...