Why Identity Providers Aren't Enough To Secure Identities In The Cloud - Part Two

**Executive summary:** This report argues that identity providers are a critical but insufficient security boundary, catalogs several recent IdP compromises (Okta, Twilio, JumpCloud, Azure AD) perpetrated by criminal and state-sponsored actors, outlines common attacker techniques such as credential theft and MFA bypass, and recommends measures—baseline user behavior, monitor privileges, detect access anomalies, and enforce cross-service conditional access—to reduce the systemic risk to cloud identities.