Protecting identities is fundamental to corporate security. With attackers moving faster than ever before, traditional identity governance is no longer sufficient. To stay secure, organizations need real-time visibility into identity events.
Cybersecurity is facing a real storm: attack surfaces are increasing exponentially as companies integrate more cloud apps and external accounts into their environments. At the same time, organizations 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 to prevent critical data from falling into the wrong hands. Companies need to protect them, but can no longer rely on strategies and playbooks from the perimeter security paradigm. You need a new approach to keep up with the attackers.
Set the rules, but know when to break them
In the past, identity security focused primarily on governance: role-based access, lifecycle automation, regular access reviews. Governance gives companies the ability to control who has access to what resources, ensuring that user rights remain appropriate and serve a business purpose.
Identity governance remains an essential part of any security strategy, both to reduce identity risks and to increase the productivity of IT teams by streamlining user management. However, role-based deployment and quarterly access audits alone are not enough to protect against modern, sophisticated attacks.
As important as it is to set limits on user access, attackers don’t follow the rules. Policies won’t help you stop violations unless you know when they’re being violated. To evolve your identity security stack from passive mitigation to proactive defense, you need real-time monitoring of identity events that gives you the ability to immediately investigate potential breaches.
Central, uniform event checking
Identifying active threats among countless regular events can feel like searching for the proverbial needle in a haystack. The key to searching event data is relevance and context. Windows and Active Directory event logs are a flood of data that is difficult for administrators to understand without effective log aggregation, analysis, and filtering.
This is where our event auditing platform comes into play: tenfold captures event logs in real time, records the event types to be monitored in its own database and provides them with important context. For example, tenfold automatically looks for session IDs to show you which user is behind a change. Events that consist of multiple steps, such as creating and renaming a security group, are combined into a single entry.
To help you filter log data, tenfold offers powerful search tools as well as the ability to save and share queries for easier access in the future. Create custom queries to see all privileged account login events, all recently requested password resets, or anything you’ve set your mind to. A central, unified log for all event data makes it easier to investigate any type of suspicious activity.
Automate onboarding and offboarding, streamline access reviews, and monitor IT events – without complexity or custom scripts.
Our no-code IGA solution tenfold combines comprehensive governance with real-time event auditing. Book a personal demo to learn more.
Keep your security stack lean with three solutions in one
Fragmented, siled security tools slow your response when minutes count. The signals lack cross-platform context and investigations fail in a labyrinth of admin portals. Choose the right tool to help your team move forward at full speed.
tenfold combines identity governance, data access governance and real-time event monitoring in a single solution. This means that the same platform you use to run onboarding workflows and access reviews can also audit identity events – supported by the governance toolset and the full context of your identity directory.
Did you spot anything suspicious? If an account shows signs of compromise, you can get a report of everything the account has access to in seconds. Update their lifecycle stage to temporarily suspend their accounts to give you time to complete your investigation.
Combine real-time visibility with comprehensive governance, all in a seamless, no-code package. Speak to our team to discuss how tenfold can optimize governance and discovery in your environment.
Our event auditing feature is included in all tenfold editions at no additional cost. Monitoring currently covers Windows and Active Directory events. Support for Entra ID and automatic notifications will be added in upcoming releases. Visit the Feature page to find out more.
Sponsored and written by tenfold software.
