Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR)
Attackers increasingly use compromised credentials, privileged accounts and service accounts.
All to move through environments while appearing to be legitimate users.
Identity Threat Detection & Response provides visibility into this activity and helps organizations detect and stop identity-based attacks before they spread.
We help organizations monitor authentication activity across their identity infrastructure, detect credential abuse and suspicious access, and enforce protection when risky behavior is identified.
The objective goes beyond generating alerts.
ITDR should provide the visibility to understand an identity attack, the context to investigate it and the controls to actively prevent an attacker from moving further through the environment.
Stolen credentials can look like legitimate access
This makes credential-based attacks difficult to detect with traditional security controls alone.
Detect identity behavior, not just failed logins
We analyze authentication activity and identity behavior to identify suspicious patterns, credential misuse and abnormal access.
This provides an additional layer of detection when attackers operate using legitimate credentials.
Compromised identities enable lateral movement
One compromised account can quickly become a path towards additional systems and more privileged identities.
Attackers can use credentials and authentication protocols to move between servers and services without deploying traditional malware at every step.
Detect and stop lateral movement
We monitor authentication activity for indicators of credential abuse, privilege escalation and lateral movement.
When high-risk activity is detected, access can be challenged or blocked before the attacker reaches the next resource.
Service accounts are a major blind spot
Service accounts and other non-human identities often operate with long-lived credentials and significant privileges.
Because they authenticate automatically, introducing traditional MFA or manually rotating credentials is not always practical.
Discover, understand and protect service accounts
We identify service accounts, understand where they authenticate and establish their normal access patterns.
Access can then be restricted to the systems and services those identities actually require.
Unexpected or out-of-scope authentication can be detected and blocked.
Security teams can detect identity incidents but struggle to contain them quickly
Traditional monitoring platforms may identify suspicious behavior only after authentication has taken place.
By the time an analyst investigates the alert, the attacker may already have moved further through the environment.
Respond directly at the authentication layer
Identity security controls can intervene when risky authentication occurs.
Depending on the situation, access can be blocked, additional authentication can be required, or protective policies can be applied automatically.
This allows security teams to move from passive detection towards active identity protection.
What can you expect?
A clear view of sign-ins across the identity environment, with unusual authentication behaviour flagged as it happens.
Spotting suspicious authentication and compromised credentials early, and stopping attackers from moving across the environment.
Monitoring of privileged and sensitive accounts, plus discovery and protection of service accounts and other non-human identities.
Authentication policies that respond to risk, block high-risk sign-ins inline and require step-up MFA for suspicious or sensitive access.
Identity context for security incidents, fed into your existing SIEM, XDR and SOC processes.
Identity protection policies that are regularly tuned as threats and the environment change.
Detecting and stopping identity attacks in real time
Most MDR providers treat identity data as just another log source.
Find out how ACEN MDR works with Silverfort to spot suspicious Active Directory activity. And how our team contains attacks immediately, stopping lateral movement and ransomware before they spread.
How we handle
ITDR
ITDR starts with visibility, but its value comes from combining detection with protection.
We build an identity protection model around the accounts, authentication paths and systems that matter most.
- Discover
- Detect
- Protect
- Integrate & Improve
Phase 1 Discover
We identify the identities, authentication flows and critical resources that need protection.
This includes privileged users, administrators, service accounts, non-human identities and sensitive groups, as well as the servers, applications and authentication infrastructure they access.
Phase 2 Detect
We establish visibility into authentication activity to identify suspicious behavior and potential identity-based threats.
By monitoring unusual login patterns, credential misuse, password spraying, privileged access abuse, lateral movement and abnormal service account activity, we can detect when legitimate identities may have been compromised.
Phase 3 Protect
Where possible, we move beyond detection to actively protect identity access when risky behavior occurs.
Depending on the scenario, security controls can block authentication, require MFA, restrict access to approved resources or enforce stronger protection for privileged identities and service accounts.
Phase 4 Integrate & Improve
We integrate identity detections and incidents into your broader security operations, connecting authentication activity with endpoint and other security events.
By integrating with existing SIEM, XDR and incident response platforms, we enable better threat correlation while continuously refining detection coverage and security policies.
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Can you stop a compromised identity from moving through your environment?
We help organizations gain visibility into authentication activity, detect identity threats and introduce controls that can stop compromised credentials from being abused.
Contact us to discuss your ITDR strategy.
