Grip Defines the Identity-Driven Future of SecOps

Security operations are entering a new era—one where identities, not endpoints, determine risk and response—and Grip is at the forefront of that change.  

For much of its history, SecOps has been built around reacting to threats—detect, investigate, contain, respond. While that model has delivered speed and agility under pressure, it’s increasingly insufficient in a world where attackers are using compromised credentials and accessing critical systems, and as a result, evading detection more effectively.  

The speed and structure to response efforts has reached a point of diminishing return, where advancement in a company’s security posture are not going to come from adding yet another tool. Most companies already cannot fully utilize the tools they have. What will truly transform SecOps is smarter prevention from operationalizing identity security. Detection and response will always be necessary, but prevention is how SecOps can realize a transformational advancement in improving a company’s security posture.  

Overlooked Attack Surface

Most modern SecOps teams focus on reactive metrics. These are valuable for measuring how quickly a team can respond once something goes wrong.  

• Mean Time to Detection (MTTD)

• Mean Time to Remediation (MTTR)

• Incident closure rates

• Alert acknowledgment times (MTTA)

But focusing on these types of metrics overlooks a deeper problem—the detection and response of identity-based vulnerabilities that create the conditions for breaches in the first place. Despite widespread acknowledgment that compromised or insecure identities are a leading cause of breaches, most SecOps teams lack visibility into core identity risks. These risks often go unmonitored, unmanaged, and unmeasured:

• Breached credentials for users who have accounts on sensitive apps or systems

• Poor identity security posture from using weak, reused, or shared passwords  

• High-risk accounts lacking SSO or MFA protection are vulnerable to attack

• Shared accounts providing improper or unneeded privileges to users

• Dangling tokens or access for sensitive systems or apps

These are not edge cases—they are the soft underbelly of the enterprise attack surface. The critical truth in cybersecurity is that identity-related vulnerabilities aren’t rare anomalies—they’re common, widespread, and dangerously overlooked. These issues persist across most organizations, silently expanding the attack surface and offering easy footholds for attackers. The real risk isn’t just that these gaps exist—it’s that they’re often ignored, dismissed as someone else’s responsibility, or simply too difficult to track without the right tools. Addressing them must become a core mandate for modern SecOps.

Identity-related vulnerabilities aren’t rare anomalies—they’re common, widespread, and dangerously overlooked.

Many teams know these issues exist but struggle to resolve them. Why? Because identity security has historically been siloed—owned by separate teams, reliant on complex systems, and disconnected from the daily tools of SecOps. The focus was also on productivity, not security. For example, single sign-on was adopted to reduce password fatigue and reduce help desk tickets, and security was a secondary benefit. But in the modern enterprise, identity has become a critical control point for enforcing controls, investigations, access reviews, and remediation efforts.  

SecOps is increasingly being asked to do more than respond to threats—it’s being asked to reduce the likelihood of threats altogether. This is why transformation is needed. It’s not about abandoning traditional response workflows. It’s about augmenting them with the ability to assess, prioritize, and remediate risk before incidents happen. This shift can’t happen with legacy tools alone. It requires new capabilities—ones that bridge detection and prevention and integrate identity security directly into the security operations fabric.

Grip’s Transformational SecOps Capabilities

With these capabilities, identity becomes ingrained into SecOps and a real-time component of threat reduction.

Identity Threat Detection and Response

Detect the threat, understand its reach, and respond before it spreads.

Detect, investigate, and respond to identity-based threats across both managed and unmanaged SaaS environments. Grip’s ITDR correlates signals from IdP, email, OAuth, and browser behavior to uncover attacks like account compromise, consent phishing, and unauthorized privilege use. Automated response options—like session revocation and OAuth blocking—reduce response time, while blast radius mapping helps prioritize threats based on data and app sensitivity.

Non-Human Identity Risks  

Expose and control the unseen SaaS integrations putting your data at risk.

Gain operational control over OAuth-based SaaS-to-SaaS integrations. Discover and assess third-party app grants, detect consent phishing or risky scopes, and automatically revoke or block suspicious tokens. Grip ranks integrations by risk level and provides detailed metadata so security teams can take immediate or policy-driven actions.

Identity Attack Surface Management (IASM)

Map the identity risk path an attacker could exploit.

Visualize and manage the full identity attack surface across your SaaS stack. IASM surfaces exposed entities like external users or shared accounts, highlights exploitation vectors like just-in-time abuse or browser extensions, flags stale accounts, and audits external sharing misconfigurations. Grip enables direct remediation and offboarding from a centralized dashboard.

Identity Security Posture Management (ISPM)

Monitor and detect misconfigurations to prevent breaches.  

 Strengthen identity hygiene by identifying weak or compromised passwords, misconfigured admin controls, and risky session settings. ISPM provides posture insights across credential strength, MFA enforcement, admin protections, and session governance, with built-in mitigation steps and password rotation actions.

Browser Plug-In Detection and Response

Detect and respond to threats in the gateway to SaaS

Detect and mitigate threats introduced through browser extensions, a growing vector for SaaS abuse. Grip identifies newly installed, high-risk, or unauthorized plug-ins that could intercept sessions or exfiltrate data. Security teams can respond by uninstalling extensions, alerting users, or blocking future installations through policy automation.  

Grip is Leading the Strategic Shift in SecOps

SecOps is no longer just about surviving incidents or recovering from major breaches. It’s about building a security posture that proactively reduces the chance of them happening in the first place. And Grip is leading the way, transforming security operations  with a fundamentally new, identity-first model that delivers exponential security benefits. By turning identity into a visible, actionable layer of security, and shifting from reactive metrics to attack surface reduction, you can now see and remediate the biggest unseen risk in SecOps.

The transformation of SecOps won’t happen through faster alerts or more workflows. It will happen through deeper visibility, smarter automation, and better identity security. Data no longer lives only on premises behind firewalls—it flows across apps, devices, users, and geographies. Employees work from anywhere. Contractors, partners, and vendors access critical systems daily. The traditional security perimeter is gone, replaced by a dynamic, decentralized landscape. By turning identity into an operational control plane, Grip eliminates blind spots, reduces the attack surface, and empowers security teams to act earlier, faster, and more effectively.  

The explosion of SaaS adoption has introduced thousands of new access points—many outside the view of central IT or security teams. This SaaS sprawl, while empowering for productivity, opens countless doors for attackers. Yet most SecOps programs still struggle to monitor who has access, why, and what risk that poses. In this new reality, identity is no longer just a governance concern, but a foundational control layer for modern security. The ability to detect threats, assess posture, and respond in real time depends on understanding and acting on identity risk. Grip enables SecOps to evolve, so it can adapt to how businesses operates today and build the capabilities needed to protect the enterprise of tomorrow.

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