EverydayIdentity

Access Analytics & User Behavior (UEBA) Implementation: From Theory to Detection TL;DR UEBA promises to detect the undetectable. Insider threats. Compromised accounts. Advanced persistent threats that waltz past your firewall, EDR, and SIEM like they own the place. The pitch sounds amazing: establish behavioral baselines for every user, detect anomalies using machine learning, catch threats signature-based tools miss. John always logs in from Chicago? Sudden login from Moscow is anomalous....

Advanced Consent & Delegation Models: OAuth Scopes, Admin Consent, and Permission Sprawl TL;DR OAuth consent is your new attack surface. And users click “Accept” on it faster than they skip terms of service agreements. Which is to say, instantly. When users click “Sign in with Google” or “Connect to Office 365,” they’re granting third-party applications delegated access to corporate data—email, files, calendars, contacts. Five clicks, and that random productivity app now has “Mail....

Shadow IT Discovery Through Identity Analytics: Making the Invisible Visible TL;DR Here’s a fun number: 1,158. That’s how many cloud applications the average enterprise uses. Wanna guess how many IT actually sanctioned? About 35. Do the math—that’s 97% of your cloud services operating completely outside your visibility. 1,158 apps. You’ve sanctioned maybe 30. The rest? Shadow IT. And here’s the thing—you can’t see them with traditional security tools. Your firewall?...

Cross-Domain Federation & Trust Architectures: Beyond Simple SSO TL;DR Simple SSO? That’s easy. Deploy Okta or Azure AD, federate your apps, users log in once, everyone’s happy. You’re done in three months and it mostly works. Real federation? That’s where things get interesting. And by “interesting,” I mean “this will take 18 months and cost way more than you budgeted.” Here’s the reality: 67% of enterprises have multiple identity domains that need federation (Gartner 2024)....

Managing Non-Human Identities at Scale: The Forgotten Attack Surface TL;DR Here’s a fun stat that should keep you up at night: non-human identities outnumber humans 45 to 1 in cloud environments (CyberArk 2024). Forty-five to one. Service accounts, API keys, bots, workload identities—all those machine credentials you barely track? Yeah, they outnumber your employees by almost 50x. And I bet you can’t name even 10% of them. The average enterprise has over 5,000 non-human identities with unclear ownership....

Identity Threat Detection & Response (ITDR) in Practice: Building Detection Systems That Actually Work TL;DR Look, I’m going to be blunt: if you’re not monitoring identity like you monitor your network, you’re already compromised—you just don’t know it yet. Here’s what’s actually happening out there. The 2023 Verizon DBIR shows 74% of breaches involve stolen credentials or social engineering. That’s not a typo. Microsoft? They’re seeing 4,000+ password attacks per second on their infrastructure....

Enterprise / Large — Post E2 (IGA) Focus: Continuous identity assurance — governance, audit evidence, and resilience at enterprise scale. Previous: Post E1 covered Platform-First IAM (IdP + PAM + CIEM as your unified identity control plane). TL;DR Enterprise governance isn’t about quarterly reviews — it’s about continuous verification. This post shows how to move from periodic certifications to real-time, automated assurance that satisfies auditors, regulators, and security teams....

Beyond Rubber-Stamping: How to Fix Account Recertification TL;DR Annual access reviews are a broken, compliance-driven ritual that often increases risk. This post breaks down how to move beyond traditional, manual recertification to a modern, automated, and continuous model. We’ll cover event-driven reviews, micro-certifications, and how to leverage automation to reduce risk, eliminate rubber-stamping, and build a system that governs access in real-time. The ‘Why’ For decades, account recertification has been a cornerstone of identity and access management (IAM)....

Enterprise / Large — Post E1 (IAM) Focus: Unifying identity across hybrid and multi-cloud environments through platform-first IAM, enabling continuous Zero Trust and compliance at scale. Next: Post E2 explores Continuous Compliance and Identity Resilience (IGA) — operationalizing governance and audit automation. TL;DR For enterprises, IAM isn’t a collection of tools — it’s a security platform. When 2,000+ people, hundreds of SaaS apps, and multiple clouds meet regulation, you can’t afford identity silos....

Mid-Market — Post M2 (IGA) Focus: Turning governance from a once-a-year scramble into an automated, continuous process—reviews, SoD, and evidence collection made practical. Previous: Post M1 covered Joiner-Mover-Leaver automation and lifecycle control. TL;DR Your lifecycle is automated. People get accounts when they should, lose them when they leave. Now it’s time to prove it. This stage is about: Automating access reviews and SoD (Segregation of Duties) checks Logging every access change and certification Generating audit-ready evidence without extra headcount Mapping governance to NIST, SOC 2, and ISO 27001 controls 1....