From Visibility to Resilience: Why Identity Security Posture Management Matters in 2025

Let’s be honest. Visibility sounds great, but it is not enough. Seeing who has access does not mean you understand what that access actually enables. That is the gap attackers exploit every day.

In the past, security teams focused on logging, auditing, and basic identity governance. But in 2025, attackers do not just exploit credentials. They exploit weak configurations, unused privileges, and overlooked trust relationships. This is why Identity Security Posture Management, or ISPM, has become essential.

ISPM is about more than tracking who has access. It is about understanding the full context of that access, how it could be abused, and how resilient your environment is against identity-based attacks.

Take a common example. A user is added to several Active Directory groups over time. Nothing unusual. But through nested group memberships, they end up with indirect access to financial systems. No alerts fire. No policy is broken. But the risk is real.

Here is another real-world case. A helpdesk technician rotates through teams and gradually collects write permissions across several departments. On their own, none of these trigger concern. But when Saporo simulates attack paths, we find a route to privileged access in the core database stack. That exposure had never been reviewed.

This is not just theory. In 2023, MGM Resorts was hit by a major breach after an attacker used social engineering to convince the helpdesk to reset a privileged identity. That one account gave access to internal systems across hotel operations, casinos, and IT infrastructure. There was no exploit, no malware, just a weak identity control. The impact cost MGM over 100 million dollars. This was a breakdown of identity posture, not endpoint protection or network defense.

This is where Identity Attack Surface Management fits in. As a key component of ISPM, IASM helps map and quantify access risks and exposure paths. It tells you what could happen if one identity is compromised and helps reduce that blast radius.

Resilience means:

• Continuously identifying exposure paths

• Quantifying privilege and trust risks

• Building an environment that can resist and contain identity compromise

ISPM is not just a framework. It is a proactive security model. One that shifts the question from “who has access” to “what would happen if this account is breached?”

At Saporo, we help teams move from passive monitoring to active simulation. From disconnected audits to a continuous understanding of identity posture. From visibility to resilience.