Webinar: See How Identity Blind Spots Put Your SOC at Risk and How to Close Them
Security operations centers (SOCs) face growing challenges as they struggle to identify who or what is behind suspicious activities, potentially turning manageable incidents into major security breaches.
Security teams have more alerts, logs, and monitoring tools than ever. Yet when an attack happens, one simple question can still take too long to answer: Who or what is behind this activity, and what can they access?
A suspicious login might belong to an employee. An unusual API call could come from a machine account. Or an AI agent might be accessing sensitive systems using permissions nobody has reviewed recently.
Your SIEM or EDR may catch the activity. But without knowing who owns that identity, what permissions it has, and which systems it can reach, your SOC is missing a critical part of the story.
The Blind Spot Between Identity and Security
Identity and access management (IAM) teams know who has access to what. Security operations teams monitor suspicious activity and respond to threats. But these teams often work with different tools, different data, and different priorities.
When an alert comes in, SOC analysts may know what happened but still struggle to understand what it means. Consider a compromised service account. An analyst might detect suspicious activity, but several questions remain: What applications and systems can this account access? Could an attacker use it to move deeper into the network? How much damage could it cause?
Growing Complexity with Machine Identities
Traditional security monitoring was largely built around users, devices, and network activity. Today, organizations also rely on service accounts, API keys, automated workloads, and AI agents that can act without direct human involvement.
These identities often have access to important systems and data. If one is compromised, detecting the suspicious action is only the beginning. Security teams also need to understand its permissions, connections, and potential impact.
Knowing that something suspicious happened is useful. Knowing what it can affect and how to stop it is far more valuable.
Improving SOC Response
The goal isn't to add another dashboard or generate more alerts. It's to give analysts the information they need when an incident is unfolding. That means connecting identity intelligence with existing SIEM and EDR alerts, so teams can investigate faster, see the real risk, and contain threats safely.
In the upcoming webinar, 'Fuel the SOC with Identity Context: Securing Humans, Machines, and AI Agents,' security experts will explore how organizations can bring IAM and security operations together to close these critical gaps.
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