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What does "Privilege Access Defense done right" mean?

As the old adage goes, you are as strong as your weakest link.
Here are the first principles that guide the Inside-Out Defense platform:

Infrastructures
Protecting an organization from privilege access abuse includes every infrastructure component of your organization: private cloud, public cloud, on-prem, Apps and others

ApplicationsEvery application that makes up your organization has to be protected. These include custom business applications, 3rd party API’s, SaaS applications, and legacy managed & unmanaged applications.

User TypesMust include every user type: human users (contractors, employees…), and non-human users(3rd party API’s, BOTS, System accounts, others)

Real-Time ActionEvery user access request should have a Proof-of-Trust™ behind it. Real-time detection and in-line remediation are at the core of this principle.

Use Cases

User Catalog

A comprehensive catalog capturing every users (human and non-human) footprint & access behaviors across multiple environments (cloud saas and legacy). Thereby enabling the organizations to comprehend the context behind every access.

User Right Sizing

Track and enforce right entitlements to every user at all times.

User Decommissioning (JML)

Remove residual/hidden footprint of users who have left or moved within the organization.

Prevent Data Access Abuse in Organizations

Track & remediate sensitive data access & their abuse in realtime.

Preventing Privilege Misuse & Abusive Access Requests in its Tracks

Track and remediate users’ malicious access behaviors in realtime.

Overarching access policy guardrails

A seamless one-click button to define and track access policy guardrails across organization's footprint.

Forensic Audit Logs

Provides a real-time forensic intelligence and audit logs to track and analyze malicious user access behaviors.

Seamless Connectors

Inside-Out Defense provides out-of-the-box non-intrusive connectors to all major infrastructure & applications

The Hidden Threat of Access Abuse

In today's enterprise landscape, CISOs invest heavily in robust authentication and authorization methods to safeguard digital assets. However, an often-overlooked aspect is the dangers posed by users' actions and behavior borne out of their entitlements, both internal and external to the organization, and the resulting risks of privileged access abuse. Privileged access grants elevated permissions to individuals, enabling them to perform tasks and access sensitive resources. While essential for productivity, these privileges can lead to severe consequences when misused or abused.

Enterprises have largely focused on identity protection with authentication and authorization solutions. However, it's time to analyze the life of users beyond Authentication and Authorization to understand the behaviors surrounding the privileges and how they are leveraged to access the organization's resources. The consequences of such myopic view leads to hidden threats/dangers in the form of malicious user behaviors going undetected by the current IAM PAM or other point solutions.

The Limitations of Observability Tools in Real-Time Privilege Abuse Detection

Observability tools like SIEM, XDR, and PAM are widely used for monitoring and detecting security incidents. However, when it comes to real-time privilege abuse, these tools have certain limitations. Firstly, they lack a contextual understanding of user actions, which is crucial for identifying abnormal behavior patterns. Secondly, they operate on a delayed analysis and response model, making detecting privilege abuses in real-time difficult. Lastly, PAM solutions, although focused on managing privileged access, may not provide sufficient visibility into the real-time monitoring of privileged activities.

Observability tools struggle to interpret the context behind user actions, leading to false positives or missed detections of privilege abuse. Additionally, their batch-processing model causes delays in analysis and response, allowing potential damage to occur before alerts are generated. Moreover, while PAM solutions effectively grant and revoke privileges, they may not offer the granular visibility needed for real-time monitoring of privileged activities.

To overcome these design limitations, Inside-Out Defense, powered by its patented technology detects in real-time and remediates malicious user behaviors deterministically inline (no alerts, no recommendations) through a deeper understanding of user behavior and comprehensive visibility of user activities in their adjacencies to detect abusive activities. This enables organizations to enhance their ability to detect and respond to privilege abuses in real time, reducing the risks associated with unauthorized access and misuse of elevated permissions.

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