Modernize Legacy IAM

Q: What are the major drawbacks of legacy IAM solutions?

Legacy IAM platforms can often struggle with cloud-first authentication, because many legacy IAM tools were designed around centralized applications or internal networks and may struggle to integrate with SaaS, APIs, or cloud-native apps. They may also lack adequate support for passwordless authentication methods such as passkeys, biometrics, and hardware keys. Fragmented login processes can create siloed systems that result in a clunky user experience with multiple logins or complex administration needs to integrate various systems. Many traditional IAM solutions were primarily built for internal employees and do not offer seamless experiences for contractors, partners, customers, or non-human identities like APIs or service accounts. Legacy IAM tools can also introduce security risks because they often have a single point of failure, can be susceptible to social engineering attacks, and may not offer adequate identity risk scoring or audit logging for incident response and compliance purposes. In addition, legacy IAM typically requires dedicated infrastructure and significant overhead to maintain, increasing costs to scale.

IAM grew up in an era where enterprise systems and resources sat safely behind strong perimeters. It was developed to facilitate access, not secure it. Today’s interconnected and decentralized infrastructures are straining identity management processes beyond their limits.

Insecure IAM creates a single point of failure — 69% of organizations are breached through identity-based attacks each year
Authentication friction leads to employee frustration and potential customer abandonment
Systems operate in silos, creating security blind spots, inefficiencies, and inconsistent user experiences
Adversaries are weaponizing artificial intelligence and machine learning to generate highly convincing social engineering attacks and deepfakes that target identity systems
Fragmented processes make regulatory compliance difficult to achieve and prove

Quickly integrate secure passwordless authentication across your IAM systems and workflows.

Replace passwords and other breachable credentials with phishing-resistant, passkey-based MFA
Stop credential phishing, MFA prompt bombing, man-in-the-middle attacks and other identity threats
Proactively enforce step-up authentication and block fraudulent logins based on comprehensive, real-time risk intelligence
HYPR has leading integrations with Entra ID, Okta, Ping, ForgeRock and more

Ensure that users are who they claim to be at all times by integrating continuous, automated identity verification.

Easily configure verification flows to support your real-world scenarios, from credential resets to employee onboarding
Leverage a full range of verification methods, including advanced biometrics, high-assurance document verification, liveness detection and other cutting-edge technologies
Proactively enforce identity verification at all critical moments in the identity lifecycle based on activity and threat risk
Stop generative-AI and deepfake attacks before they get into your systems

HYPR takes a security and compliance driven approach that enables organizations to satisfy evolving regulations and requirements.

Drive compliance with global regulations and internal security frameworks without creating friction or straining resources
Strengthen protection of sensitive data and PII to comply with data privacy regulations such as GDPR and CCPA
Ensure your identity security adhere to regional, national and global regulations and frameworks including PCI DSS 4.0, PSD2, FFIEC, NIST AAL3 and others

We talked for the longest time, for years, about the future. And, it’s not the future anymore. It’s here…We are passwordless.

Alyson Ruff

Cyber Security Director of Identity and Access Management and Governance, Otis Elevator

HYPR has brought passwordless authentication to the mainstream. The emphasis on security and user experience allows companies to tackle account takeover fraud at a scale never before possible.

Abbie Barbir

Senior Security Architect, Aetna CVS Health

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HYPR's technology is a smart way to keep critical data where it belongs - close to the customer.

Executive Vice President, Mastercard

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We weren't just looking for MFA. We needed phishing-resistant authentication that did not confuse users or fragment the experience. Tying it into our existing identity stack made it rollout simple and enforcement consistent.

Clint Hardison

Navy Federal Credit Union

Why is IAM modernization important for organizations today?

Between multi-cloud or hybrid infrastructure, remote work arrangements, and increasing diversity of identities and endpoints to manage, most organizations today operate under a decentralized model where identity has become the primary security perimeter. The 2025 Data Breach Investigations Report from Verizon claims that 68% of data breaches are credential-based. Modern IAM platforms like HYPR are designed to unify your IAM systems and workflows, and replace passwords and other breachable credentials with phishing-resistant, passwordless MFA.

What are the major drawbacks of legacy IAM solutions?

Legacy IAM platforms can often struggle with:

Cloud-first authentication - many legacy IAM tools were designed around centralized applications or internal networks, and may struggle to integrate with SaaS, APIs, or cloud-native apps
Passwordless authentication - legacy IAM may not offer adequate support for passwordless authentication methods (passkeys, biometrics, hardware keys)
Siloed systems - fragmented login processes often result in a clunky user experience with multiple logins, or complex administration needs to integrate various systems
Support for all identities - many traditional IAM solutions were primarily built for internal employees, and do not offer seamless experiences for contractors, partners, customers, or non-human identities like APIs or service accounts
Security risks - legacy IAM tools often have a single point of failure, can be susceptible to social engineering attacks, and may not offer adequate identity risk scoring or audit logging for incident response and compliance purposes
Costs to scale - legacy IAM typically requires dedicated infrastructure and significant overhead to maintain

How does IAM modernization address threats from generative AI?

AI-driven attacks often try to exploit identity and credential phishing at scale. By shifting to a passwordless, phishing-resistant MFA model like HYPR, there are no reusable credentials for AI-generated phishing attacks to steal. Identity verification flows in modern MFA platforms can be flexibly configured to support your organization's unique infrastructure and attack surface, and also offer real-time risk intelligence and anomaly detection to recognize abnormal behavior.