Building a Proactive and Extensible Approach to Identity Security

Nowadays, organizations must operate in complete synchronization, with collaboration across teams and departments such as IT, Security Operations, IT Operations, Helpdesk, and DevOps, to effectively address security threats. In order to stay efficient while providing proactive and comprehensive enough security to keep organizations safe from rapidly evolving threats, security needs to be a coordinated team effort.

Combining multiple security solutions allows organizations to combine the strengths of different technologies and expertise—but integrating new security solutions into existing infrastructure can be complex, and, if not managed effectively, can create gaps that disrupt current processes and leave organizations vulnerable to security threats.

That’s where BeyondTrust Identity Security Insights® comes in. Designed to seamlessly fit into your existing identity security infrastructure and enable unified visibility of the true privileges of identities and accounts across your IT landscape, Identity Security Insights offers a rapidly expanding number of advanced integrations (on-prem and cloud) to facilitate automation and workflows. These integrations enable teams, tools, and processes to flow smoothly. They also help illuminate Paths to Privilege™ to help identify security threats and gaps so they can be addressed quickly. ​​

In this blog, we’ll explore the newest product integrations and how they can make a real difference for your organization’s overall security posture.

Seamless integration is crucial for maintaining a strong and resilient security posture. It can allow organizations to:

• Minimize Disruptions: Ensuring new security tools fit smoothly into your current infrastructure minimizes operational disruptions and maintains business continuity. This allows your team to stay focused on their core tasks without being bogged down by integration-related challenges.
• Maximize ROI: By integrating new solutions effectively, you can maximize the return on investment (ROI) from your existing security tools. Rather than replacing or overhauling your infrastructure, seamless integration enhances the capabilities of your current setup, ensuring you get the most value from your security investments.
• Improve Security Efficacy: A well-integrated security framework offers better visibility, control, and an enriched context, allowing your team to detect and respond to threats more effectively. Achieving a robust security posture across a diverse landscape requires a multifaceted approach that encompasses a broad range of technologies and skillsets. With a cohesive system in place, you can address security issues swiftly and accurately, ensuring that remediations is directed to the teams or services providers who are most familiar with the technologies and vulnerabilities assessed by Identity Security Insights.
• No Special Expertise Required: Simply plug Identity Security Insights in and start to see detections within 30 minutes. This allows your organization to focus on the real threats instead of spending time learning and implementing a new product.

Recognizing the importance of existing infrastructure and different systems for IT, security, and IAM teams, BeyondTrust Identity Security Insights now offers expanded integrations to allow seamless workflows with your current security and incident response tools. Supported tools now include ServiceNow Security Operations Center (SOC) and ITSM, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Splunk, SailPoint identity governance, and Ping DaVinci automation and orchestration (to name just a few).

With the latest webhook integrations, organizations can leverage automation to achieve new levels of security. For instance, security teams can configure detections and recommendations to be automatically sent to their choice of incident response tool – like SIEM, SOAR or various communication tools such as Slack or Teams. They can also leverage integrated PAM controls to remediate privilege issues, block access, or enforce the principle of least privilege (PoLP).

1. Identity Security Insights uses read-only connectors, which ingest identity data from all the identity sources across your entire identity fabric, whether on-prem, Cloud, or SaaS—including additional BeyondTrust Platform products—into Identity Security Insights for analysis. ​Think of it as gathering all the pieces of your identity puzzle. We retrieve inventory data, configuration state, as well as auditing and event data, which reflects the activity within those systems.​

2. Identity Security Insights then uses multiple analysis techniques, including AI and ML, to find the connections among accounts, entitlements, privileges and configurations.

This enables Identity Security Insights to:

• Uncover the true privilege of an identity and the hidden pathways attackers can exploit across your environment.​
• Provide accurate recommendations and detections of anomalous activities along with rich context necessary to fully understand the impact.

It’s easy to integrate Identity Security Insights with your security workflows. Just select an integration tile from the dashboard, configure or customize what data to send, and connect to your preferred tool. If you don’t see the integration you need, simply leverage webhooks to build your custom integrations to meet your specific needs.

Identity Security Insights’ continuously expanding integrations pave the way for seamless integration with your existing security infrastructure and investments, allowing you to enhance your identity security, streamline processes, and boost productivity.

Here are just some of the benefits of these integrations:

• Continuous assessment and monitoring of identity security posture: Gain a comprehensive view of your identity landscape, including potential identity security risks and privilege escalation pathways within your existing tools. Continuously monitor and track changes. Leverage AI-driven recommendations and detections to proactively reduce risks.
• Optimized SecOps & Incident Response Workflows: Break down the silos and collaborate seamlessly with your IT, security, and IAM teams with automated workflows. Improve efficiency and response times by gaining valuable insights directly within your familiar systems.
• Extended visibility and context across your enterprise security: Build custom Webhook integrations to share rich identity security data across your enterprise security ecosystem for further correlation. Enhance decision-making with deeper context.

BeyondTrust recently helped Polsinelli overhaul their approach to identity security. As one of the top-ranked law firms in the United States, Polsinelli faced significant challenges in maintaining visibility and control over their extensive identity estate. BeyondTrust provided the comprehensive solution they needed to ensure robust security across both on-premises and cloud environments:

“We are leveraging BeyondTrust Identity Security Insights to enhance our other security products through BeyondTrust webhooks,” said Anna Essex, Senior Compliance and Security Analyst at Polsinelli. “These webhooks automate actions, allowing us to quickly respond if a user account is flagged for potential compromise. We can shut down sessions, rotate passwords, and more. One exciting new feature is the ability to automatically generate tickets in our Freshservice Helpdesk system from these detections. This enables us to create workflows that assign tasks to application or process owners efficiently.

“Additionally, our integration with the SIEM solution, Splunk, helps streamline the remediation of detections and recommendations. BeyondTrust webhooks connect with various applications in our environment, greatly expanding our automation capabilities, which is something I’m particularly passionate about.”

With Identity Security Insights and its advanced integrations and extensibility, you can empower your operations with the visibility and insights you need, precisely when you need them.

It’s all part of how BeyondTrust Identity Security Insights helps organizations secure their Paths to Privilege. Identity Security Insights is a unique, cloud-native solution built from the ground up to deliver a unified view of an organization’s entire identity landscape. It leverages AI/ML-powered sophisticated analysis to uncover obscure connections between identities, human and service accounts, privileges, and configurations across endpoints, servers, databases, identity providers, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, and DevOps tools in a holistic way.

Learn more about our seamless integrations here, or sign up for our complimentary Identity Security assessment and free trial to see how Identity Security Insights can transform your security infrastructure.