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The Significance of Identity Threat Detection & Response along with EDR
Identity-based attacks are on the rise, and today’s organizations must detect when attackers exploit, misuse, or steal enterprise identities. Attackers are using Active Directory (AD) and credentials more frequently to advance their attacks.
As organizations move to the public cloud and the number of human/non-human identities increases exponentially, the need to protect identities and detect identity-based attack activity grows in priority.
Adopting solutions that protect identities is vital, given the damages resulting from identity misuse. Analyst research has found that credential data now factors into the majority of all breaches, highlighting that attackers consistently attempt to access valid credentials and exploit them to move through networks undetected.
Attacks on digital business processes and deeply embedded vulnerabilities have exposed technology gaps. These disruptions don’t exist in isolation; they have a compound effect. To address the risks, CISOs need to transition their roles from technologists who prevent breaches to corporate strategists who manage cyber risk.” – Gartner 2022
Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR) is a new security category specifically designed to safeguard identities and the systems that manage them. Rather than a replacement, ITDR complements Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) and other detection solutions.
Identity exposures create attack opportunities and fill a significant gap in the identity security landscape. In contrast to identity protection systems like Identity and Access Management (IAM), Privilege Access Management (PAM), or Identity Governance and Administration (IGA), which secure authentication and authorization, ITDR focuses on:
- Credential theft
- Misuse
- Privilege Escalation
Today, identity security is central to the cybersecurity threat landscape, and the ability to detect and respond to identity-based threats is essential. ITDR offers enterprises a new tool to uncover and rectify credential and entitlement flaws and detect live attacks in real-time.
ITDR solutions are critical to preventing cybercrime today. Other tools simply cannot, as they aim to use vulnerable credentials and entitlements to travel through networks undetected.
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