Identity security is a critical concern for enterprises, as attackers constantly evolve their tactics to target exposures in the global identity fabric. This guide provides a comprehensive view of identity security tuned to the realities of modern work — a reality where enterprise security depends on identity security.
Download PDFIdentity security has become one of the most critical issues for enterprises in recent years, as data breaches and cyberattacks continue to increase in frequency and severity. Identity security consists of practices, programs, processes, and technologies leveraged in concert to protect enterprise identities and credentials, including usernames, passwords, and biometric data, from unauthorized access, theft, or misuse.
With the growing complexity of enterprise IT environments and the increasing number of endpoints, cloud-based applications, and mobile devices, it is becoming more challenging for enterprises to secure their digital identities effectively.
The challenges in enterprise identity security are multifaceted. Some of the main challenges include:
Complexity: Enterprises are using a growing number of applications, systems, and devices, making it difficult to manage and secure digital identities effectively. It is essential to have a centralized identity management system that can integrate with all applications and devices and enforce policies consistently across the entire enterprise.
Shadow IT: Shadow IT refers to the use of unauthorized applications, devices, or services within an enterprise. It can make it difficult for IT teams to manage and secure digital identities because they don't have visibility into all the applications and devices being used by employees.
Lack of visibility: Enterprises need to have visibility into all digital identities and access rights across the organization to detect and prevent security threats. Without proper visibility, IT teams cannot effectively monitor and manage identities and access rights.
Human error: Human error is a common cause of security breaches, particularly when it comes to managing digital identities. Employees may use weak passwords, share credentials, or fall for phishing attacks, making it easy for hackers to gain unauthorized access to enterprise systems.
Cyberattacks: Cyberattacks targeting digital identities and credentials are becoming more sophisticated, making it difficult for enterprises to keep up. Attackers can use a range of tactics, including phishing, malware, and social engineering, to gain access to enterprise systems and data.
Managing the identity attack surface is a complex and multifaceted task that requires a comprehensive approach. Enterprises must consider all factors that contribute to the identity attack surface, including identity data, user behavior, and relationships with SaaS services. By adopting a unified approach to identity security that includes discovery, governance, authentication, and controls, organizations can reduce the risk of identity attacks and safeguard modern work.
Identity security is a critical concern for enterprises, as cyber attackers are constantly evolving their tactics to target exposures in the global identity fabric, including phishing, smishing, and vishing attacks, brute forcing credentials, and social engineering are concentrated campaigns to gain unauthorized access to the controls of the digital enterprise, especially via SaaS services. Enterprises must take a proactive approach to identity security to protect sensitive data, maintain compliance, and safeguard their reputation.
Here are some essential components of identity security for enterprises:
Discovery: Identity discovery is most impactful when paired with SaaS use activity. By understanding identities and SaaS connections, acceptable and justified use, and analyze authentication methods to gain visibility to the global identity fabric in contact with SaaS services. The most common form of identity discovery is through capturing when an identity is used as a credential with web services, like SaaS. Discovery’s second value comes from ongoing graphing and change tracking, given the continuous use and spread of identities within SaaS relationships.
Risk Assessment: Each organization’s risk tolerance can vary, but there are common factors to consider when assessing risk across the identity attack surface as it becomes discovered. First, risk must look at the accessibility of underlying capabilities for identities, which is the same as the capabilities an adversary would get from a compromised identity. SaaS services have capabilities like file sharing, permission to grant open authorizations and scope (OAuth), delegate and assign new accounts, escalate privileges, operate production systems and even deliver security via SaaS services (viz., every security product is accessed and operated from a SaaS app). These inherent risks of each SaaS app’s capabilities are offset by mitigations found from discovery as well — including whether access controls and strong authentication are enabled.
Strong Authentication: One of the most important steps enterprises can take to secure their identity management systems is to implement strong authentication measures. Multi-factor authentication (MFA) should be used to require users to provide at least two forms of verification before being granted access to sensitive data or systems. This can include a combination of something the user knows (e.g., a password), something the user has (e.g., a token), or something the user is (e.g., biometric data).
Access Controls: Enterprises should also implement access controls to limit the access of users to only the information and systems they need to do their jobs. Role-based access control (RBAC) is a common approach to access control that allows administrators to define roles and assign permissions based on those roles. This helps to prevent unauthorized access to sensitive data or systems.
Identity Governance: Identity governance refers to the policies and processes for managing the entire lifecycle of user identities, from creation to deletion. Enterprises should implement robust identity governance to ensure that users have appropriate access privileges, that their access is regularly reviewed, and that access is removed when no longer needed. This helps to prevent dormant accounts or overprivileged users from becoming vulnerabilities.
Monitoring and Auditing: Enterprises should monitor user activity and regularly audit access logs to detect potential security breaches. This can include monitoring for unusual login patterns, suspicious activity on user accounts, and unauthorized access attempts. Regular auditing can help to identify vulnerabilities or weaknesses in the identity management system and prevent potential security incidents.
Cloud Security: Enterprises that use cloud services or software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications should implement additional security measures to protect their data. This includes using secure connections, restricting access to authorized users, and implementing additional encryption measures. Cloud providers should also be evaluated for their security practices and certifications to ensure that they meet industry standards for security.
User Training and Awareness: Finally, enterprises should prioritize user training and awareness to educate employees about the importance of identity security and how to identify potential security threats. This can include training on best practices for password management, phishing awareness, and safe browsing habits. Employees should be encouraged to report any suspicious activity or security incidents immediately to prevent them from becoming larger threats.
Enterprises can make significant progress to secure their identity attack surface with these principles, including changing security policy to ensure identities maintain these protections whenever and wherever identities are used. And the most common use of identities is in SaaS relationships, giving security teams an opportunity for outsized impact on identity security by focusing attention on identity-SaaS relationships as they emerge, evolve, and influence control over the digital enterprise.
Identity security is a critical aspect of modern organizations. It helps protect sensitive data, ensure compliance with regulations, mitigate cyber threats, and support remote work and cloud services. Effective identity security requires a range of measures, including multi-factor authentication, access controls, identity governance, and regular auditing and monitoring. By implementing these measures, organizations can reduce the risk of unauthorized access and protect their sensitive data and resources.
Often, identity security can be reduced to technical implements and tools like SSO and MFA, however, these only cover one aspect or facet of identity security. We have seen how SSO and MFA systems themselves can be targets of attack and exploit, leading to a chain reaction of ‘authorized’ access for identities which have themselves been compromised, nor do SSO or MFA do much to shield identities in SaaS relationships outside of SSO or MFA controls — often more than 70% of overall identity-SaaS usage.
Whether an app or service is sanctioned or unsanctioned, the fact is, identities are spread across all types of web relationships and connections that challenges security teams to find and eliminate threats to the identity attack surface. This is why leading organizations prioritize identity security as the bedrock for protecting modern work and the essentials for today’s digital organizations.
There are several reasons why identity security is critical for today’s digital enterprise:
Secure SaaS Control: SaaS service layer is where identities are repeatedly under attack —phishing, smishing, and vishing threats along with credentials remaining the top threat target. Why? Because the SaaS layer is where credentials and identities sprawl, duplicate, and operate outside IAM and SSO. This requires cutting across all SaaS types and discovering identity-SaaS relationships; corporate identities are entangled with SaaS services whether we know it or not.
Protect Sensitive Data: Many organizations store and process sensitive data, such as personal information of employees and customers, financial data, and intellectual property. A breach of this data can have severe consequences, including financial losses, reputation damage, and legal liabilities. Identity security measures help ensure that only authorized individuals have access to this data, reducing the risk of unauthorized access and data breaches.
Compliance Requirements: Organizations are required to comply with various regulations and standards, such as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), and the New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) regulations surrounding core identity practices like user access reviews and attestation of each identity’s scope of control via SaaS services. Many of these regulations mandate strict requirements for identity security, including the need for multi-factor authentication, access controls, and regular audits.
Cyber Threats: Cybersecurity threats are constantly evolving and becoming more sophisticated. Attackers often use social engineering tactics, phishing attacks, and other methods to steal user credentials and gain access to systems and data. Identity security measures, such as multi-factor authentication, can help mitigate the risk of these attacks.
Remote Workforce: The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the trend of remote work, and many organizations now have a sizable portion of their workforce working from home or other remote locations. This has increased the need for identity security measures that can protect against unauthorized access from outside the organization's network.
Effective identity security requires a range of measures, including multi-factor authentication, access controls, identity governance, and regular auditing and monitoring. And these security measures come in response to the key areas that demand a more secure identity attack surface — including SaaS control over key functions, data protection to shield what is sensitive, neutralizing cyber threats, and following standards and regulations to keep modern work moving.
By implementing these measures, organizations can reduce the risk of unauthorized access and protect their sensitive data and resources (SaaS) that control the entire organization — from HR to IT, DevOps to finance and factories; SaaS runs the enterprise and SaaS depends on identity.
Identities are assets, not people. That’s how cybercriminals think about the uniquely capable corporate asset of identity. This unique quality of identity is what leads to the ultimate challenge — to actualize security at the identity level to carry security controls and protections with the identity anywhere, everywhere, and on-demand. There are challenges every security and risk leader must face to overcome this new identity-first dynamic.
One of the biggest challenges in enterprise identity security is the sheer complexity of managing identities across a variety of systems and applications. This complexity can lead to vulnerabilities and misconfigurations that can be exploited by cybercriminals.
For example, a misconfigured identity system could allow an attacker to gain access to sensitive data, applications, or systems. And even when configured pristinely, identity systems are blind to the hundreds of identity-SaaS relationships that go back for years without notice. 61% of all breaches involve credentials, whether they be stolen via social engineering or hacked using brute force.
According to the Identity Defined Security Alliance (IDSA)’s study Identity Security: A Work in Progress, 94% of organizations have experienced a data breach, and 79% were breached in the last two years.
Each year, between 30% and 50% of the identity attack surface changes — people move to new roles, take jobs outside the organizations, contractors’ contracts expire, seasonal staff change quarter-to-quarter (if not faster), and the SaaS relationships for these identities are also always on the move.
The average organization will experience 60% “SaaS churn” every two years. SaaS churn happens when formerly utilized SaaS apps become abandoned, orphaned, or decommissioned intentionally. But change also goes in the expansionary direction. Often organizations will have redundant or duplicate SaaS (with duplicate identities and credentials) leading to exorbitant cost and waste, punctuated even more during economic uncertainty.
At the same time, enterprises are expanding service lines and portfolio of products and services, leading to an exponential diversity of SaaS services within each business. The only constant factor was identity.
Identity-first security is required to uncover identity-SaaS relationships, exposures, and exploit chains — along with identity-based actions to ensure identity assets are secure whenever and wherever SaaS is used. This includes, removing access to risky or dangerous SaaS relationships with the risk of exploit. Automating identity-SaaS offboarding helps reduce the risk of persisting SaaS services, dangling access, zombie accounts, and tenant redundancy.
The high incident rates in recent years could be attributed to several factors, including the increasing adoption of SaaS and cloud technologies and the increase in numbers of remote and hybrid workers.
Digital transformation and the adoption of cloud technologies have enabled organizations to structure themselves more flexibly and productively, but they also make it more difficult for IT teams to keep track of who is accessing what data from where, and on which device.
The increase in remote work in recent years has caused many organizations’ endpoint fleets to become much more diverse, as employees work from laptops, tablets and smartphones, and businesses embrace business-led IT, and with it, an eruption of identity-SaaS relationships.
Another challenge is the growing number of identity-related threats. According to a report by Verizon, 40% of data breaches in 2022 involved the misuse of legitimate credentials. Additionally, some studies have suggested an astounding level of risk associated with identities (and credentials exposed to misuse and abuse).
Business-led SaaS is another environmental condition that continues to expand the identity attack surface, and mostly on purpose or as a by-product of a strategic shift in modern work. Increasingly, organizations are allowing users and groups in their business to identify, select, procure, and support their own tools and SaaS apps. The consulting firm, KPMG, has estimated that by the year 2030, 80-85% of overall SaaS will be business-led SaaS — existing entirely outside the control of IT and security operations.
In 2021, Microsoft found that 73% of credentials are duplicates, meaning the same corporate identity and password were reused in nearly 3 out of every 4 web relationships. This can quickly expand an attacker’s foothold by compromising a single credential for one identity-SaaS relationship and thereby spread to hundreds more.
Without guidance or governance for identities being used outside of sanctioned controls like SSO or MFA, users are left with the ease of cloning their identities and credentials in unknown places where it is just simpler to reuse a credential than try and remember hundreds of unique, strong passwords.
Identity security is essential for compliance. Many regulations, such as GDPR, CCPA, NYDFS, HIPAA, and SOC 2, require businesses to protect sensitive data and SaaS controls, including secure, authorized identities have access to it. Identity security measures can help businesses meet these compliance requirements.
Many researchers cite the lack of security policy and control for most SaaS relationships as the main reason for users simply duplicating credentials across multiple SaaS apps. According to Gartner, an estimated 82% of organizations do not have security or access controls for shadow SaaS (also known as business-led SaaS).
However, business-led SaaS still requires an identity to operate; identity is the connection point when the SaaS enters the environment — regardless of if the owner is IT or a business group. This is an ongoing security concern, because it demands security teams to effect more than they can touch.
As identity and SaaS threats continue to evolve, it's important to stay informed and take the necessary steps to protect your organization. In this article, we will discuss the recent security breaches at LastPass and Okta and provide actionable steps to help safeguard your sensitive data.
LastPass Breach
LastPass is a popular password manager that allows users to securely store their passwords and other sensitive information. Unfortunately, in December 2022, LastPass suffered a security breach that resulted in the exposure of some users' password vaults. According to LastPass, the breach was caused by a vulnerability in their authentication system that allowed an attacker to bypass the multi-factor authentication (MFA) process. While LastPass claims that no sensitive data was stolen, they have recommended that all users change their master password as a precautionary measure.
Okta is a cloud-based identity and access management provider that allows organizations to securely manage user access to applications and data. In December 2022, Okta also suffered a security breach that resulted in the exposure of some user data. According to Okta, the breach was caused by a third-party service provider who managed a part of their infrastructure. The attacker was able to exploit a vulnerability in the service provider's system and gain access to a subset of user data.
And while the apps and services used may live outside of IT supervision, identities used in those SaaS relationships are still the responsibility of the organization, because each identity is an asset, and it is entangled in web and SaaS relationships whether known or not. Having a comprehensive picture of the identity fabric is key because it is the one universal no matter how SaaS is purchased or owned.
With the rise of cloud computing, organizations rely on SaaS for its flexibility, scalability, and cost-effectiveness. However, this shift to cloud-based software also means that organizations need to pay closer attention to SaaS as the breeding ground for identity risks. Because with each SaaS connection added to the enterprise, the expanding identity attack surface becomes larger with a greater share of it hidden out of sight.
With identity attacks becoming more frequent and sophisticated, organizations need to ensure that they have strong identity security programs in place to protect their sensitive data and systems. Here are some steps to help you develop a framework for identity security that your enterprise can follow as best practices.
Step 1: Define Identity Security Goals
The first step in developing an effective identity security program is to define your goals. This involves identifying the types of threats your organization faces and the types of data and systems you need to protect.
Each organization's identity security goals should align with its overall security objectives, and should be specific, measurable, and achievable. For example, you may set a goal of reducing the risk of data breaches by implementing multi-factor authentication for all employees.
Step 2: Assess Your Current Identity Security Program
Once you have defined your identity security goals, you can begin to assess your current program. This involves conducting a thorough review of your current identity security practices, including your policies, procedures, and technologies.
Assess your current security posture and identify any vulnerabilities or weaknesses in your identity security program. This will help you identify areas where you need to improve and prioritize your security efforts.
Step 3: Develop Policies and Procedures
The next step in developing a framework for identity security is to develop policies and procedures. This involves defining the rules and guidelines that govern how your organization manages user identities and access.
Enterprise policies and procedures should be aligned with your identity security goals and should cover areas such as user onboarding and offboarding, password management, access controls, and incident response.
Step 4: Implement Identity Security Technologies
Once you have developed your policies and procedures, you can begin to implement identity security technologies. This involves selecting and configuring technologies that will help you achieve your identity security goals.
Some common identity security technologies include multi-factor authentication, single sign-on (SSO), and identity and access management (IAM) solutions. You should also consider implementing technologies that enable you to monitor user activity and detect potential security threats.
Step 5: Rescue Users from Identity Exploits
Finally, it's important to shield identities from toxic combinations with web apps and SaaS services by enabling centralized control with decentralized enforcement. This takes the form of discovering all identity-SaaS relationships and analyzing the underlying capabilities with the power to control the digital enterprise.
Security teams can derive the relative risk given the scope of control permitted by the SaaS service — which can be a specific function or control that is shared across multiple SaaS solutions (e.g., file sharing, OAuth grants, production, or security SaaS). Knowing what each SaaS service can do allows security teams to prioritize based on impact — attack blast radius — when a SaaS service or identity connected to it is compromised.
The last step to rescue users from identity exploits is to distribute (universalize) enforcement. AI-powered enforcement applies security policy to SaaS services, on-demand. When an identity consumes a SaaS service, even at the first-time signup page, security teams can apply a protection scheme based on that identity’s inherent risk, context of the SaaS in-use, and conformed to the declarative policy intended for identity-SaaS relationships.
Identities are assets, not people. As such, policies can be infused to an identity, then orchestrated to enact appropriate controls and realize on-demand protection via identities whenever and wherever the identity is used.
Developing an identity security framework is an essential step for modern enterprises. By defining your identity security goals, assessing your current program, developing policies and procedures, implementing identity security technologies, and training employees on best practices, you can help protect your organization from cyber-attacks and safeguard your sensitive data and systems.
Enterprise security depends on identity security and in today's digital age, cybersecurity threats are on the rise, and the need for robust security measures to protect business enterprises has become paramount.
Implementing security measures to ensure that only authorized individuals have access to sensitive business data and resources is critical — with identities themselves playing a unique role as an asset of telemetry and control by turning identities into carriers of security policies and protections. This involves verifying the identity of individuals accessing the SaaS, web apps, and other cloud assets.
To ensure effective identity security for their businesses, enterprises must follow best practices. Here are some of the best practices that businesses can follow to protect their identities:
Multi-factor authentication (MFA). MFA is a security measure that requires users to provide two or more authentication factors to access sensitive data or resources. This can include something the user knows, such as a password or PIN, something the user has, such as a security token or smartphone, or something the user is, such as biometric data like a fingerprint or facial recognition. MFA can help prevent unauthorized access to sensitive data and resources.
Role-Based Access Control (RBAC): RBAC is a security model that assigns permissions to users based on their role within the organization. This ensures that users only have access to the resources and data that they need to perform their job functions. RBAC can help prevent unauthorized access to sensitive data and reduce the risk of insider threats.
Identity Security Solutions: IAM, ITDR, and IASM solutions are software tools that manage user identities and risks associated with identities in-use. IAM solutions can help businesses automate identity management processes, ITDR finds real-world threats to identity systems, and IASM gives a panoramic view of all identity assets, where identities sprawl, context, compliance, and enforces security policies whenever and wherever identities use online services, like SaaS apps.
Employee Training: Employee training is a critical component of identity security. Employees must be trained in best practices for password management, phishing awareness, and other security-related topics. Regular training can help prevent accidental security breaches and improve overall security posture.
Protecting identities must be a priority for businesses of all sizes, and failure to do so can have severe consequences. Identity security is a critical component of enterprise security. By implementing best practices such as MFA, RBAC, identity security solutions, and employee training, security teams reduce the risk of identity hijacking, insider threats (even when accidental), compliance violations to standards and regulations.
Users today want to leverage the best technologies to get their job done, which means they will acquire SaaS apps outside the direct oversight of IT or security teams. Active monitoring must occur across all of the relationships where identity assets are consumed by and directly consume SaaS services, regardless of whether you are using a VPN or ZTNA access method, and even when access controls like SSO are present.
Traditional security products fall short in identity discovery because they look at traffic, not relationships. Identities enter SaaS relationships every day, with every login and most of this activity is not ‘traffic’ for network-oriented utilities to catch — such as CASB, SSO, IAM, SWG, etc. Newer identity-first security platforms do a far better job of constant discovery by using discovery based on real-world observations of identities connecting and interacting with SaaS services.
Identity and Access Management (IAM) is a set of policies, procedures, and technologies used to manage and control access to sensitive data, applications, and systems within an organization. IAM is a critical component of cybersecurity because it helps to ensure that only authorized users have access to specific resources and data, and it can prevent unauthorized access, data breaches, and other cyber-attacks.
IAM encompasses a range of policies, procedures, and technologies that work together to ensure that only authorized users have access to specific resources and data. This, in turn, can help prevent unauthorized access, data breaches, and other cyber-attacks, thus improving overall cybersecurity.
IAM solutions are designed to provide a comprehensive security approach and can be implemented using a variety of technologies, including directory services, identity and access management systems, and multifactor authentication tools. By deploying IAM solutions, organizations can achieve a high level of control and visibility over their IT resources and ensure that only authorized personnel can access sensitive data, applications, and systems.
Identity attack surface management (IASM) is a security practice and technology solution that provides identity discovery, risk assessment, and mitigation workflows for the organization's identity assets and relationships, graphed and analyzed for exposures and risk, along with mitigation actions to infuse protection for identities globally.
IASM aims to improve cybersecurity by providing a unified and consistent approach to identity and access management. IASM is designed to secure access and transactions by using identity as the foundation for security policies, controls, and threat protection. IASM key capabilities include:
Centralize identity discovery and management. By centralizing identity management, an IASM makes it easier to manage user identities and access privileges, reducing the risk of identity-related breaches and unauthorized access to sensitive data.
Enhance security visibility. With a centralized identity management system, it's easier to monitor and detect unusual activity and potential security threats, giving organizations a better understanding of where identities are threatened or exposed, and when it happens.
Streamline authentication and authorization. An IASM helps to streamline authentication and authorization processes, reducing the risk of security breaches caused by weak or stolen credentials.
Improve compliance. An IASM provides organizations with a centralized view of their identity-related security controls and policies, making it easier to meet compliance requirements, such as GDPR and HIPAA.
Enhance identity threat protection. By providing a centralized view of all identity-related activity, an IASM helps organizations discover and mitigate identity risks more quickly and effectively, while maintaining line of sight to identity assets and SaaS relationships.
Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR) is a security category deployed to protect identities and identity-based systems, like directory services, cloud access security brokers (CASB), IAM and other identity-dependent systems — including SaaS services consuming identity assets.
ITDR differentiates from identity and access management (IAM) by focusing on identity threats after compromise, while IAM is intended to prevent identity-related risks with authentication policy and control, proper user provisioning, permissions, and access control. ITDR graphs and maps identities, credentials, permissions, and privileges along with exposures, identity abuse and vulnerabilities.
ITDR aligns with zero trust principles, especially by strengthening least-privileged access and mitigating risks and exposures, and indicators of a breach or credential compromise before a breach happens.
Identity threats are an ever-present danger, and it's important to take the necessary steps to protect organizations from potential compromise and exploit chains. These best practices for technology-driven protection can help safeguard identity assets and mitigate the risk of threats against them.
Grip captures and graphs identities, SaaS services and apps, groups, and tenants — including authentication methods and usage with 10+ years of history. Prioritize remediation with identity risk insights and patented risk indexing based on real-world observations of identity assets and their online relationships, including missing controls like SSO, policy dodging, and validating use justification.
To secure the identity attack surface, visibility and awareness are critical. Grip gives security teams on-demand insights into identity use, misuse, and abuse by continuously discovering identities as they are used with web apps, SaaS, and cloud services. Grip’s innovative zero-touch identity discovery pinpoints identity sprawl and control erosion in real-time as users leverage their enterprise identity, regardless of network status, device, or location — all without proxies or agents.
Eliminate threats that matter based on accessibility and impact of the inherent and residual risk, along with validating access and compliant authentication for each user entrusted with corporate identity assets. By using Grip, security teams can maintain line-of-sight and execute integrated actions to remediate identity exposures and risky exploit chains.
When SaaS providers or web services experience a breach, Grip customers can instantly see if and where they are affected, and secure identities and access to the effected SaaS service in just a few clicks. This includes full-scale offboarding for targeted users, all users, specific SaaS, or entire groups of apps and tenants — fully automated with Grip.
Grip’s open integrations enable security programs to tame their identity attack surface with unified controls leveraging identity risk insights based on direct observations of identity use and remediation strategies with relevant actions to take, like automating offboarding for identities, SaaS apps, or both.
Grip Key Capabilities for Identity Security
Zero-touch Discovery. The most comprehensive and accurate identity discovery technology can pinpoint current and historical identity risks. Grip’s AI-enabled graphing gives security teams a panoramic view of their entire identity attack surface — past, present, and future.
10-minute Deployment. Simple deployment process done through API integrations with standard mail and identity systems — Grip’s AI-powered natural language processing (NLP), robotic processing automation (RBA), and intelligence graphing builds a composite identity fabric — including 10+ years of history.
Identity Risk Prioritization. Dynamically assess risk to identity assets based on use, misuse, and abuse, contextual intelligence, device and SaaS signals, and internet telemetry to uncover toxic combinations, credential exposures, and identity exploit chains — anywhere and everywhere identities are used. Incorporate multiple signals to monitor risk or trigger events to improve security and access controls.
Identity Security Automation. Automate 100+ SaaS security processes and playbooks like access reviews, justification, compliance assessments, threat response, and offboarding targeted identities or SaaS services in just a few clicks. Grip created its own universal integration to any other system across the IT and security stack — examples include SIEM, XDR, EDR, ITSM, CNAPP, GRC, or CSPM. Universal identity attack surface intelligence enables full-scale automation and orchestration to extend the impact of every technology it touches.
Continuous Identity Risk Monitoring. Grip monitors identity risk based on each organization’s declarative security policies. Then, Grip decentralizes enforcement for every identity, on-demand. Contextualize security events to manage identity sprawl across cloud and SaaS services and discover identity control erosion and gaps to prevent compliance failures and neutralize identity attacks.
Grip is the only solution ready to secure the enterprise identity attack surface, enabling security teams to understand their identity risks, vulnerabilities, and exposures. Grip prioritizes identity risks and automates action to remove exposures before they become exploits. And the most critical domain for identity risk is in SaaS service layer — filled with unknown, unsanctioned, unauthorized web apps consuming identity assets completely out of sight, and without safeguards.
Enterprise security depends on identity security. In today's digital enterprise, identity threats are on the rise, and the need for robust security measures to protect enterprise identity assets has become essential. Identities are assets, not people — and identity assets are uniquely entrusted to custodians we call “users”. The challenge for identity security is to enable protection for identities whenever and wherever users take them, shielding identities from exploit and toxic combinations that are key targets for cybercriminals.
Grip empowers security teams to impact more than they can touch; giving them the a panoramic lens to discover their unique identity fabric and the power to infuse security to identities to achieve secure outcomes whenever and wherever their organization’s identities are used.
That’s why leading organizations choose Grip for universal identity security in every SaaS connection — past, present, and future.
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