Identity and Access Security

Strengthen your security posture by incorporating continuous monitoring for identity and access-related exposures. Proactively find, prioritize, and fix validated identity security gaps before they are exploited.
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Identity Isn’t A Perimeter, It’s A Highway

80% of exposures are identity-related. Bad actors target user credentials and permissions because they are the keys to an organization’s kingdom. Misconfigurations such as MFA not being enabled, excessive privileges on an account, issues with Active Directory groups or stolen credentials acquired on the Dark Web are all weaknesses that attackers use to gain a foothold and move laterally within organizations. Security teams need to constantly monitor for these issues and proactively take action.

Identity Sprawl

Identity is a huge attack surface that can connect attackers with every corner of your environment.

Incorrect Prioritization

Which identity exposures lead to critical asset compromise isn’t always clear.

Mobilization Challenges

Sharing urgency and context to teams responsible for a fix isn’t always easy.

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Minimize Risk from Identity-Based Exposures

Uncover Identity Exposures

Get continuous visibility of identity risks and misconfigurations across hybrid environments.

Act for Maximum Impact

Prioritize remediation of identity-related exposures that are exploitable and lead to business-critical assets.

Communicate Risk Effectively

Get identity teams fixing the right things with the context, guidance and evidence they need to reduce risk efficiently.
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Keep Your Identity Security Posture Tight

XM Cyber’s pioneering approach to Continuous Exposure Management places identity security at its heart. We help some of the world’s largest organizations to proactively address potential identity and access exposures before attackers can exploit them.

See Your Entire Identity Attack Surface

XM Cyber continuously monitors on-premises, cloud and hybrid environments for issues and misconfigurations that attackers can leverage to compromise business critical assets. Potential attack paths are validated against thousands of attack techniques to test if they can be exploited in the real world.

Identity threat exposures including:

  • Over-privileged accounts, users and machine identities
  • Compromised, reused or cached credentials
  • Shadow accounts and users
  • Misconfigurations such as MFA not enabled, cleartext passwords, Active Directory tiering issues, privileged groups with too many users
  • Exploitable hybrid accounts that can seamlessly move from on-prem to cloud

Prioritize Critical Identity Exposures

See where your efforts will have the biggest impact on your organization. XM Cyber identifies and prioritizes the identity-related attack paths that lead to your business critical assets and validates them to prove that they are exploitable. Choke points take this even further, identifying the asset or identity where multiple attack paths to a critical asset converge - making them prime candidates for fast remediation.

  • Understand which identity exposures lead to critical asset compromise
  • Reduce time spent on investigation and chasing dead ends
  • Maximize the impact of your actions by closing attack paths in bulk via choke points

Fix Identity Exposures Faster

Get identity and access teams fixing the right things with evidence-backed context of actual risk to the business. Mobilize fixes easily with guided remediation options with alternatives for sensitive environments. Rich identity exposure data can be fed into SIEM and EDR tools to provide deep context for the wider security team.

  • Speed the remediation process with context, guided steps and alternatives
  • Give other security teams (e.g. red team) valuable data on identity risk
  • Feed into other tools such as SIEM, EDR and ticketing systems

Make Continuous Exposure Management
a Core Tenet of Identity Security


XM Cyber helps organizations to take a proactive approach to Identity Security Posture Management. Continuous monitoring of your hybrid environments for identity risks and exposures is crucial to keeping your security posture high.
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FAQ

Why is Identity Security Important?

Attackers target identities because they can give them wide access to an organization's environment. Issues such as misconfigurations in Active Directory and compromised credentials can be combined by a bad actor to move laterally and gain access to business critical assets.

How do Hybrid Environments Impact Identity Security?

Often the different areas of a hybrid environment (e.g. on-prem vs cloud) are treated as separate entities by security tools focused on identity. To understand the true risk to critical assets from identity exposures security teams need to be able to see the validated, exploitable attack paths that can move across hybrid environments.

How do attackers exploit credentials?

Bad actors can acquire leaked credentials on the Dark Web, access them from a device itself (e.g. credential dumping exploits or infostealer). They then use them to access accounts and move laterally within an organization’s environment.

How does XM Cyber help address identity and access exposures?

XM Cyber continuously monitors on-premises, cloud and hybrid environments for issues and misconfigurations that attackers can leverage to compromise business critical assets. Potential attack paths are validated against thousands of attack techniques to test if they can be exploited in the real world. Issues such as over-privileged accounts, compromised and cached credentials and misconfigurations such as MFA not being enabled, as well as issues with Active Directory are all identified.

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