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11/06/2026 10:55 pm
TL;DR: Cloud exposure, ransomware, phishing, unmanaged privilege, supply chain weakness, and AI-enabled attacks all exploit the same control failures, according to Zluri, while Microsoft Exchange, WannaCry, and Mirai show how quickly access gaps become operational incidents. The real issue is not threat variety, but weak identity governance across human, machine, and system access.
NHIMG editorial — based on content published by Zluri: Security & Compliance Top 8 Challenges of Cyber Security & How to Address Them
Questions worth separating out
Q: What breaks when privileged access is not tightly governed in cybersecurity programmes?
A: When privileged access is not tightly governed, attackers and insiders can turn valid permissions into lateral movement, persistence, or sabotage.
Q: Why do cloud and SaaS environments make identity governance harder to control?
A: Cloud and SaaS environments make identity governance harder because access is distributed across services, admins, APIs, and third-party integrations.
Q: What do security teams get wrong about phishing in modern environments?
A: They often treat phishing as a user-awareness problem alone.
Practitioner guidance
- Map attack classes to identity controls Link each major threat type in your environment to the access control that would fail first, including authentication, privilege scope, logging, and offboarding.
- Review privileged access before it becomes insider risk Identify employees, contractors, and partners with broad rights that are no longer necessary, then recertify and remove excess privilege on a fixed schedule.
- Harden cloud and serverless trust paths Treat exposed cloud services and serverless backends as identity-dependent surfaces, and verify that leaked credentials cannot reach sensitive data without additional checks.
What's in the full article
Zluri's full blog post covers the operational detail this post intentionally leaves for the source:
- Step-by-step explanations of each of the eight cybersecurity challenge categories and the example attacks linked to them
- The article's practical mitigation list for authentication, encryption, monitoring, and password hygiene
- Zluri's SaaS access management framing for identity visibility, access control, and user verification
- The vendor and analyst references that support the article's product context and credibility claims
👉 Read Zluri's analysis of common cybersecurity challenges and access control gaps →
Cybersecurity challenges and the identity control gaps teams miss?
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12/06/2026 7:21 am
Cybersecurity challenge lists are really identity governance failure maps. The article spans cloud compromise, ransomware, phishing, unmanaged privilege, supply chain risk, and AI-enabled attacks, but the common denominator is access control that no longer matches how systems are actually used. That is why IAM, PAM, and lifecycle governance sit at the centre of the problem, not at the edge of it. Practitioners should read these threats as one control gap with many expressions.
A few things that frame the scale:
- 85% of organisations lack full visibility into third-party vendors connected via OAuth apps, according to The State of Non-Human Identity Security.
- Only 1.5 out of 10 organisations are highly confident in their ability to secure NHIs, according to The State of Non-Human Identity Security.
A question worth separating out:
Q: How should organisations reduce risk from unmanaged access privileges?
A: Organisations should inventory who has elevated access, remove rights that no longer match the role, and recertify high-risk permissions on a fixed cadence. If a privilege cannot be justified operationally, it should not remain available. Access that is not actively governed becomes a standing attack path.
👉 Read our full editorial: Cybersecurity challenges reveal where access control still fails
