Meet the new Duo IAM
Identity is under siege. Sixty percent of all Cisco Talos IR cases in 2024 saw identity as a key component of reported attacks. Organizations are facing relentless challenges in keeping their systems secure. As attackers grow more sophisticated, traditional Identity and Access Management (IAM) providers have fallen short, leaving critical gaps in their defenses.
At Duo, we’ve been watching this unfold, and honestly, we’ve had enough. That’s why we’re proud to announce that Duo is officially expanding into the IAM market, bringing our trusted security expertise to an area long overdue for disruption.
Traditional IAM providers have historically prioritized business enablement over robust security, resulting in clunky, costly, and inefficient solutions that are difficult to deploy and vulnerable to identity-based attacks. Duo’s new IAM solution changes the game by being security-first, easy to use, and built to frustrate attackers—not your users.
The Duo difference: End-to-end phishing resistance
For too long, defenders have focused solely on login protection with multi-factor authentication (MFA). While that’s a critical step, attackers have learned to adapt, finding new ways to bypass traditional defenses. AI significantly exacerbates the situation by amplifying the scale, speed and sophistication of account takeover attacks, enabling automated and highly adaptive social engineering techniques. This creates a real identity crisis.
Duo’s IAM solution rises to this challenge by now offering end-to-end phishing resistance as a core feature, delivered right out of the box.
This experience includes innovative features like:
Proximity Verification: A new, easy-to-deploy form of phishing-resistant MFA that is designed to protect against adversary-in-the-middle attacks.
Complete Passwordless: Eliminating passwords from enrollment and fallback, so users never have to rely on outdated, insecure credentials.
Seamless Help Desk Verification: A new tech partnership enabling identity verification for help desks, safeguarding against social engineering attacks.
With Duo, organizations unlock a deployable, seamless experience for end users, ensuring the highest level of security while maintaining simplicity and ease of use.
More than protection: Unified Identity Intelligence
At Duo, we believe protecting identity workflows isn’t enough. Organizations also need tools to continuously monitor and respond to changes in identity risk. That’s why we’ve introduced Identity Intelligence, which provides:
Comprehensive Visibility: Gain insights across your identity ecosystem, including on-premises, legacy, and non-human systems.
Proactive Security Insights: Stay ahead of risks with actionable recommendations.
Dynamic Risk Assessment: A distilled User Trust Level dynamically informs access decisions and accelerates threat detection across the Cisco Security stack.
And the best part? This functionality works with any identity stack, giving organizations the flexibility to enhance their existing systems—whether or not Duo IAM is the primary component.
The only security-first IAM solution
We understand that identity isn’t exactly a new space. Every organization has some sort of existing identity infrastructure. That’s why we’ve built our solution to be flexible. For example, some of our preview customers run Duo IAM as a secondary directory for their contractors and third parties. We’ve also had customers place Duo “in-front” of their existing IAM stack as an “identity broker” enabling consistent, phishing-resistant, passwordless policy for their workforce, even with multiple backend identity providers from other vendors. Our robust user directory and identity routing engine make this possible.
For organizations ready to make the leap to a fully secure identity infrastructure, Duo now offers everything you need in one place. With Duo Directory, you can easily sync users and attributes with external sources and then leverage our popular SSO and MFA capabilities to provide seamless access management.
We’ve also made migration simple with tools like Routing Rules and an AI Assistant to help organizations transition without disruption. Whether you’re integrating Duo into your current stack or building from scratch, our solution is designed to make security effortless.
A commitment to zero trust
Duo’s expansion into the IAM market isn’t just about addressing the failures of traditional providers—it’s about doubling down on our commitment to an “identity-first” approach to zero trust. By integrating seamlessly with the broader Cisco Security ecosystem, Duo ensures organizations can protect their users, data, and systems with the most advanced tools available.
Join the movement
The days of weak identity defenses and clunky IAM systems are over. With Cisco Duo, organizations finally have a partner that prioritizes security without compromising usability. Together, we can defend against identity-based threats and make the digital world safer for everyone.
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