Stop Identity Attacks in Their Tracks: A Roadmap to Risk Reduction

Speakers:
Stacy Leidwinger, VP of Marketing
Chris Yule, Director of CTU Capabilities
Date Recorded: Thursday, September 12, 2024
Duration: 30 minutes

In the last year, 90% of organizations have suffered identity breaches as cyber attacks involving identities grow more sophisticated and widespread¹. Organizations rely heavily on their identity infrastructure to enable collaboration, remote work, and access to internal systems. But the complexity and room for gaps and errors in these systems make it an attractive target for threat actors, posing significant risks across all sectors.

To manage user identities and control access to resources, most organizations use identity and access management (IAM) systems. It's not enough. Analysis of these systems uncovered that 95%² are misconfigured. These misconfigurations provide cybercriminals with opportunities to escalate privileges and leverage identities to further their attacks. While IAM systems are crucial to an organization's security strategy, they must be complemented by additional security layers to proactively combat these tactics. Identity threat detection and response (ITDR) can provide these additional layers, identifying risks and anomalies and detecting potential breaches early.

In this informational webinar, you will learn:

• The current state of identity threats and the expanding identity attack surface
• Why organizations benefit from identity threat prevention as well as detection and response
• How ITDR can help safeguard against the escalating risks associated with identity threats

Sources

1. Identity Defined Security Alliance (IDSA), 2023 Trends in Securing Digital Identities, July 2023
2. Calculated based on existing Secureworks customer data gathered from incident response