Disconnected applications are business apps that can't be governed through your identity provider because they don't support standards like SAML, SSO, or SCIM. In a 2023 Ponemon Institute study of 595 IT and security practitioners, sponsored by Cerby, the average organization had 96 disconnected applications, and roughly half of them did not support single sign-on.
The research tied these apps to measurable risk. 52% of organizations had experienced a security incident caused by their inability to secure disconnected apps, and 47% had failed a regulatory compliance audit for the same reason. The work to manage them stays manual: an average of 84 apps require an admin to log in by hand to grant or revoke access, and provisioning plus deprovisioning a single employee runs about 15 hours and $937.50.
In this 2023 report, you'll learn:
- The risks of disconnected apps, including credential sharing, orphaned access, and inconsistent MFA
- The financial cost of managing these apps manually
- Solutions for centralizing and automating access to disconnected apps
Download the full 2023 Ponemon research.
