use case

Continuously Discover Application Inventory

use case

Continuously Discover Application Inventory

Challenge

Lack of Central Application Inventory

In most enterprises, in addition to corporate standard applications, the offices in different countries as well as the various lines of business often add new applications specific to their needs. Whether or not there is a centralized review process, the need for “agility” often circumvents the importance of strong security during the production roll-out process.

Impact

Leads to Unknown / Inconsistent Identity Security Posture

As a result of this local and / or line of business autonomy, the cyber security team often lacks a complete and current view of all applications in use, let alone an understanding and comfort with the identity security controls in place across applications. Of note, a 2024 CISO survey conducted by Team8 found that only 32% “have a mostly current inventory of applications that they can access.” Since, as the saying goes, you can’t secure what you can’t see, most organizations lack a true understanding of their real identity security posture, raising the risk of a cyber incident or non-compliance.

"In the past years, HUB International integrated 200+ new acquisitions, each bringing unique applications with varying levels of security and compliance. Orchid’s vision goes beyond just discovery—it delivers continuous visibility into IAM security and compliance posture while enabling key functionalities like Identity Governance, SSO, and MFA."

Jeremy Embalabala

CISO, HUB International

Solution

Dynamically Discover Applications, Continuously Assess Identity Flows

Orchid Security offers the ability to discover all applications running on any given host they can see, as well as to automatically assess the authentication and authorizations flows that are followed by each application. As a result, organizations benefit from a central inventory of all applications in use.