Most security strategies focus on who is logging in and from where. Once authentication succeeds, trust is implicitly granted. This approach, however, overlooks the critical phase that follows authentication, where credentials, keys, or admin privileges become fully usable — and fully exploitable. This is why:
The issue isn’t authentication. It’s what happens after access is granted.
Traditional security models assume that secrets can be safely stored, shared, and rotated. In reality, secrets are copied, cached, logged, and exfiltrated — often invisibly. Once a credential exists in a usable form, it becomes a liability:
Controls layered around secrets don’t change the underlying risk.
Modern threats require a different approach — one where:
Instead of asking “Who has the credential?”, the better question is: “Who is allowed to perform this action, right now, under these conditions?” This is the difference between identity-centric security and action-centric security.
Banks operate in environments where:
Security models built on static trust and long-lived credentials simply don’t scale to this reality.
The next evolution of security won’t replace IAM, PAM, or MFA — it will sit beneath them. It will:
Financial institutions don’t need more alerts. They need fewer secrets — and stronger guarantees about how critical actions are authorized. That’s the layer worth protecting.
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