Your people’s logins are the new front door
When a team works remotely, there’s no office network to break into. The valuable things live in email, file storage and cloud apps, and the way in is an account. That’s why so many attacks now start with identity: a phished password, an MFA prompt someone approves without thinking, or a session token stolen from a browser.
Once inside an account, attackers move quietly. They read mail to learn who pays whom, set up forwarding rules to keep watching, connect malicious apps that keep access even after a password reset, and send convincing invoice fraud from a real colleague’s mailbox. None of that touches a laptop, so device protection alone won’t see it.
What identity threat detection watches for
- Impossible or unusual sign-ins. Logins from new countries, unfamiliar devices or two places at once.
- MFA abuse. Bursts of push prompts, new MFA methods added to an account, or approvals at odd hours.
- Session and token theft. Sessions reused from unexpected locations after phishing that captures a completed sign-in.
- Mailbox tampering. New forwarding, delete or move rules that hide an attacker’s activity.
- Risky app consents. Third-party apps granted access to mail or files they shouldn’t need.
- Privilege changes. New admins, role changes and changes to security settings.
How we respond
Detection only helps if someone acts quickly. When an alert is real, our analysts:
- Contain the account. Block sign-in or force a reset, and revoke active sessions and tokens.
- Remove persistence. Delete malicious inbox rules, revoke rogue app permissions and remove attacker-added MFA methods.
- Scope the damage. Review what the attacker read, sent or changed.
- Report and harden. Explain what happened in plain English and close the gap that let it happen.
Part of a layered defense
Identity threat detection works best alongside EDR / MDR on your devices, zero trust access to limit what any single account can reach, and a business password manager so fewer passwords are reused or phished in the first place.