Safeguarding identities is foundational to enterprise security. With attackers moving faster than ever, conventional Identity Governance is no longer enough. Businesses need real-time insight into identity events to stay secure.
Cybersecurity is facing a perfect storm: Attack surfaces are growing exponentially as organizations integrate more and more cloud apps and external accounts into their environments. At the same time, businesses face increasingly sophisticated threats – from personalized phishing campaigns to AI-driven vulnerability exploits.
In this complex threat landscape, identities now serve as the first line of defense keeping critical data from falling into the wrong hands. Organizations need to protect them, but can no longer rely on strategies and playbooks from the perimeter security paradigm to do so. They need a new approach to keep up with attackers.
Set the rules, but know when they are broken
In the past, Identity Security focused mainly on governance: role-based access, lifecycle automation, periodic access reviews. Governance gives organizations the means to control who has access to which resources, ensuring user privileges remain appropriate and serve a business purpose.
Identity Governance remains an essential component of any security strategy, both to reduce identity risks and for the productivity boost IT teams unlock by streamlining user administration. However, role-based provisioning and quarterly access reviews alone are not enough to protect against modern, sophisticated attacks.
As important as it is to set boundaries for user access, attackers don’t play by the rules. Policies won’t help you stop breaches unless you know when they are being broken. In order to take your Identity Security stack from passive risk reduction to proactive defense, you need real-time monitoring for identity events, giving you the ability to investigate potential breaches as they happen.
Central, unified event auditing
Identifying active threats among countless regular events can feel like searching for the proverbial needle in the haystack. The key to sifting through event data is relevance and context. Event logs for Windows and Active Directory are a firehose of data that admins struggle to make sense of without effective log aggregation, analysis and filtering.
This is where our event auditing platform comes in: tenfold ingests event logs in real time, records event types you want to monitor in its own database and supplies them with important context. For example, tenfold automatically looks up session IDs to show you which user is behind a change. Events consisting of multiple steps, such as creating and renaming a security group, are consolidated into a singly entry.
To help you filter through log data, tenfold provides powerful search tools, as well as the ability to save and share queries for easy access in the future. Create custom queries to show you all login events on privileged accounts, all recently requested password resets or anything you set your mind to. A central, unified log for all event data makes it easy to investigate suspicious activity of any kind.
Automate on- and offboarding, streamline access reviews and monitor IT events – without complexity or custom scripting.
Our no-code IGA solution tenfold pairs comprehensive governance with real-time event auditing. Book a personal demo to learn more.
Keep your security stack lean with three solutions in one
Fractured, isolated security tools slow down your response when minutes matter most. Signals are missing cross-platform context and investigations peter out in a maze of admin portals. Choose the right tool to help your team move at full speed.
tenfold combines Identity Governance, Data Access Governance and real-time event monitoring in a single solution. This means the same platform you use to run onboarding workflows and access reviews also allows you to audit identity events – backed by the governance toolset and full context of your identity directory.
Spotted something suspicious? If an account is showing signs of compromise, you can pull up a report on everything they have access to in seconds. Update their lifecycle phase to temporarily lock down their accounts, giving you time to complete your investigation.
Combine real-time visibility with in-depth governance, all in one seamless, no-code package. Talk to our team to discuss how tenfold can streamline governance and detection in your environment.
Our event auditing feature is included in all tenfold editions with no added costs. Monitoring currently extends to Windows and Active Directory events. Support for Entra ID and automated alerting will be added in upcoming releases. Visit the feature page to learn more.
Sponsored and written by tenfold Software.
