Why Your IAM Needs Device-Based Access Control

Your IAM Has a Major Blind Spot: The Device. Your IAM is designed to answer one question: Who is trying to log in? But in reality, it’s not verifying identity — it’s only checking credentials. And a username, password, or even MFA tells you just half the story. The full identity of a user can only be verified when you authenticate both the person and the device they’re logging in from. Without that, your IAM leaves a critical gap wide open. Here’s the danger: when credentials are compromised (and they will be), an attacker with a valid username and password looks identical to your employee. From your IAM’s perspective, the login is legitimate. But hidden inside those credentials could be a Trojan horse — an adversary bringing their own untrusted device straight into your environment. This is where Device-Based Access Control changes the equation. Instead of trusting an infinite number of unknown endpoints, you restrict access to only the devices you know, trust, and continuously verify. ✅ Link users to their devices — credentials alone are useless without the trusted machine. 🚫 Block unknown devices by default — no enrollment, no access. ⚙️ Adapt access by context — different rules for managed devices vs. BYOD. The login can’t just be about user credentials. It must fully authenticate the identity of the user and the device at the exact moment of access. It’s not about replacing your IAM — it’s about giving it the device-level identity and posture certainty it needs when it matters most: the login. ➡️ Stop trusting blindly. Start controlling access: https://lnkd.in/dYf4-hjb ➡️ Ready to limit device access? https://lnkd.in/dbAm_xjM Catch up on the series: Part 1: The Power of the Login - https://lnkd.in/drzaS9dT Part 2: Phishing-Resistant Authentication - https://lnkd.in/dAnfzu-p Part 3: Securing BYOD and 3rd-Party Access - https://lnkd.in/dYVDSNV3 Part 4: Turning the Access Point to an Enforcement Gate - https://lnkd.in/dVjnnijv Next up: how Zero Device Trust enables frictionless productivity without weakening your defenses. #DeviceBasedAccessControl #ZeroDeviceTrust #IAM #AccessControl #ZeroTrust #Cybersecurity #EndpointSecurity #Infinipoint