Identity Threat Detection & Response
Grip ITDR 2.0 empowers SecOps to prevent threats and catch those that bypass preventive controls, with automated responses that stop them in real time.
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Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR) is a cybersecurity discipline focused on identifying, analyzing, and responding to identity-based threats across an organization’s digital environment. Unlike traditional Identity and Access Management (IAM) tools, which focus on access control, authentication, and user provisioning, ITDR is designed to detect and respond to threats or malicious use of legitimate credentials. It also has a preventative aspect to it that identifies and fixes gaps in identity security. ITDR solutions monitor the behaviors and relationships between identities, credentials, entitlements, and access patterns, helping security teams uncover suspicious activity such as compromised accounts, privilege escalation, credential abuse, and unauthorized lateral movement within systems.
As cloud adoption and SaaS usage continue to grow, identity has become a primary attack vector. Threat actors no longer need to break in. They simply log in using stolen or misused credentials. In fact, identity-based attacks now account for a significant percentage of breaches, many of which bypass traditional endpoint or perimeter-based security tools entirely.
ITDR security addresses this gap by focusing specifically on identity-layer threats, providing visibility and detection capabilities that IAM, EDR, and XDR tools may miss. ITDR acts as a complementary layer that strengthens identity security across both on-premises and cloud environments.
Faster, smarter SecOps: Grip enriches alerts with identity context, recommends next steps, and enables one-click or automated remediation, reducing response time.
Broader detection: Grip covers more than just identify infrastructure and managed apps. It monitors unmanaged, shadow SaaS too.
Visibility Beyond the Login: Unlike solutions that monitor just login anomalies, Grip detects other threats beyond the login like malicious extensions installs, malicious OAuth grants, and privilege escalations.
Preventive & Reactive: Grip combines discovery, posture hardening, and ITDR into a single platform, giving security teams both protection and response.
Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR) tools work by collecting and analyzing identity-related signals from multiple sources, primarily identity infrastructure like identity providers (IdPs), authentication logs, and managed applications. They aim to detect abnormalities and potential threats. Core capabilities include:
• Identity Analysis – Mapping relationships between users, roles, privileges, and systems to detect anomalous behavior or toxic combinations of permissions.
• Credential Exposure Detection – Monitoring for leaked, reused, or vulnerable credentials that could be exploited by attackers.
• Behavioral Anomaly Detection – Analyzing user behavior over time to flag deviations, such as unusual access times, devices, or geographic locations.
• Privilege Misuse Monitoring – Detecting abuse of privileged accounts or unauthorized privilege escalation activities.
• Identity Risk Scoring – Assigning dynamic risk scores to identities based on access patterns, entitlements, and potential exposure.
Grip ITDR 2.0 goes further, incorporating broader threat signals across more SaaS, including shadow SaaS, OAuth grants, and browser extensions, giving teams richer context and deeper coverage of the identity attack surface.
Yes, if your organization uses SaaS, an ITDR solution is critical. Identity-based attacks now account for the majority of breaches, and traditional tools often miss them. Manual monitoring doesn’t scale across hundreds of apps and users. ITDR gives SecOps teams the identity context they need to respond faster and stop threats earlier. It also bridges the gap between IAM and security operations by combining threat intelligence with identity-based controls and automation, a necessary shift in today’s cloud-first world where identity is both the new perimeter and a primary target.
While both ITDR and IAM are essential components of identity security, they serve distinct purposes at different stages of the identity lifecycle. IAM focuses primarily on preventing unauthorized access. It helps organizations manage who has access to what, ensuring proper authentication, user provisioning, and role-based access controls. IAM enforces policies before and during access—its goal is to make sure that only the right users can access the right systems at the right time. Identity Threat Detection and Response, on the other hand, focuses on what happens after access is granted. ITDR is designed to detect and respond to identity misuse, credential compromise, and privilege abuse. Rather than managing access, ITDR observes how identities behave in real time and flags suspicious or high-risk activity that could indicate a threat.
IAM typically works with data like permissions, roles, and policies, while ITDR analyzes behavioral signals, entitlements, and credential activity to uncover threats that bypass preventive controls.
In short:
• IAM is about pre-access control and enforcement.
• ITDR is about post-access monitoring and response.
Together, they create a more complete approach to securing identities across modern, cloud-first environments.
