"Unlike endpoint, network, and cloud security—which have well-established security measures—identity remains fragmented..."
The Identity Security Playbook
Credentials are the #1 attack vector
Identity security tackles one of the biggest challenges facing security and IT leaders today. According to the 2024 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report, identity was the most implicated cause in the 10,626 reported breaches over the past year.
As organizations move beyond traditional networks to embrace cloud-based infrastructures, SaaS applications, and hybrid working environments, digital identities have been given unprecedented levels of power. They consist of employees, third parties, and machines all freely navigating on-premises applications and resources to cloud infrastructures and SaaS applications, all from different devices and endpoints around the world. This is great news for organizations in search of flexibility and efficiency to support unprecedented innovation and growth—but not so much for security teams responsible for protection, governance, and compliance.
Attackers today are targeting user credentials, compromising valid accounts to gain immediate access to the systems and resources, and move laterally within them. They’re preying on the fact that it’s harder than ever for organizations to know where their identities are, what they’re doing, or whether they’re even legitimate.
Yet, most organizations still rely on outdated, disjointed solutions that fail to provide the security coverage needed to protect identities at scale. The reality is identity has never had a dedicated solution for universal threat exposure management and real-time protection.
Unlike endpoint, network, and cloud security—which have well-established security measures—identity remains fragmented, relying on legacy systems that lack the intelligence, precision, and efficiency to stop modern threats. Many security professionals have assumed an endpoint-first approach is enough, but identity-based attacks bypass those defenses altogether.
Today, enterprises are trying to manage identity through a patchwork of:
On-premises identity management tools with most of the Global Fortune 1000 companies using Microsoft Active Directory (AD) for
on-premises identitiesMultiple cloud identity providers (IdPs) including Google Workspace, Entra ID and more
A mix of point identity security solutions for identity threat detection and response (ITDR), identity security posture management (ISPM), privileged access management (PAM), multi-factor authentication (MFA) and non-human identity (NHI) security
Identity is everything
"Unlike endpoint, network, and cloud security—which have well-established security measures—identity remains fragmented..."
The Identity Security Playbook
Identity security tackles one of the biggest challenges facing security and IT leaders today. According to the 2024 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report, identity was the most implicated cause in the 10,626 reported breaches over the past year.
As organizations move beyond traditional networks to embrace cloud-based infrastructures, SaaS applications, and hybrid working environments, digital identities have been given unprecedented levels of power. They consist of employees, third parties, and machines all freely navigating on-premises applications and resources to cloud infrastructures and SaaS applications, all from different devices and endpoints around the world. This is great news for organizations in search of flexibility and efficiency to support unprecedented innovation and growth—but not so much for security teams responsible for protection, governance, and compliance.
Credentials are the #1 attack vector
Attackers today are targeting user credentials, compromising valid accounts to gain immediate access to the systems and resources, and move laterally within them. They’re preying on the fact that it’s harder than ever for organizations to know where their identities are, what they’re doing, or whether they’re even legitimate.
Yet, most organizations still rely on outdated, disjointed solutions that fail to provide the security coverage needed to protect identities at scale. The reality is identity has never had a dedicated solution for universal threat exposure management and real-time protection.
Unlike endpoint, network, and cloud security—which have well-established security measures—identity remains fragmented, relying on legacy systems that lack the intelligence, precision, and efficiency to stop modern threats. Many security professionals have assumed an endpoint-first approach is enough, but identity-based attacks bypass those defenses altogether.
Today, enterprises are trying to manage identity through a patchwork of:
On-premises identity management tools with most of the Global Fortune 1000 companies using Microsoft Active Directory (AD) for
on-premises identitiesMultiple cloud identity providers (IdPs) including Google Workspace, Entra ID and more
A mix of point identity security solutions for identity threat detection and response (ITDR), identity security posture management (ISPM), privileged access management (PAM), multi-factor authentication (MFA) and non-human identity (NHI) security
Identity is everything