Abstract

For decades, cybersecurity has suffered from a fundamental architectural flaw: the artificial separation between identity management and security operations. While IT departments managed identities in isolation and Security Operations Centers (SOCs) monitored threats in their own silo, attackers never respected these organizational boundaries. They exploited the gap between these domains with devastating efficiency, turning our internal divisions into their strategic advantage.This fragmentation wasn't just an operational inconvenience—it was a critical vulnerability. And now, after years of mounting breaches and billions in losses, the industry is finally acknowledging what should have been obvious from the start: identity and security must converge.