Advisory

Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR) Advisory

We can help you define and build a robust ITDR program the will integrate with your environment and proactively monitor and respond to today's advanced cybersecurity threats

Build the capability to monitor and respond to identity security threats in an orchestrated, automated manner

Being able to detect and respond to today’s cybersecurity attacks requires a holistic view that only a dedicated platform can provide. ITDR allows for monitoring of user behavior holistically across the enterprise, rather than relying on disparate signals each identity security platform provides on its own. Response playbooks can then be implemented to take action on the detected activity and trigger workflows across the identity security suite to respond.

This is a difficult ask that many organizations struggle with, as it requires not only an identity security suite of tools, but the ability to integrate them and understanding the environment, deploying the right solution, and enabling responses to anomalous behavior before it can become a more serious threat. 

Our services can help you identify:

  • What ITDR is and why it is important
  • How it fits into the IAM and identity fabric model
  • How ITDR can heighten security and remove risk
  • What it takes to implement ITDR, and to manage it operationally
  • Help with implementation and support of ITDR
 

Xalient can help your organization build the right approach, which includes a full view of your current identity security suite, recommendations on filling gaps in tooling or capability, and selecting and deploying an ITDR solution with full integrations across the suite to monitor and take action. 

Talk to an Expert and Learn More

Key ITDR Services

Free IAM Workshop

Building the Case for ITDR

We can help you define the need for ITDR, outline the benefits, validate your use cases, identify the threats you face, which will help build the business within the organization.

Free IAM Workshop

ITDR Advisory

Build an actionable roadmap, strategy, and operational support approach to ITDR based on a complete discovery of your identity security posture specific to your environment.

Free IAM Workshop

Deployment & Integration Planning

Based on our discovery, we'll provide detailed recommendations for solutions, developing the HLD, defining integration requirements and goals, roadmap, and operational support.

PAM Deployment

ITDR Reporting & Identity Intelligence

ITDR reporting and identity intelligence - cataloging reporting needs ITDR can fill, integrations with non-IAM security and infrastructure systems, identity intelligence and how it can be used, including executive visibility.

PAM Deployment

ITDR in Decentralized Environments

We can provide specific ITDR advisory for de-centralized environments - including M&A driven organizations, private equity, holding companies, and global enterprises.

PAM Deployment

Requirements Gathering & RFP Support

To help support the RFP process, we can drive the gathering of requirements to build a comprehensive RFP that will help your organization engage with and ensure that you select the right vendor for your specific needs.

ITDR Advisory Engagement Overview

We’ll help you navigate your ITDR challenges by educating your team, identifying risk, creating a strategy with vendor recommendations, and providing implementation and ongoing support. 

Free ITDR Workshop

ITDR can be challenging. It covers a lot of ground and has deep integrations across your identity security stack. These requirements can feel paralyzing. How do you ensure that you choose the right solutions? Will it integrate with your current tools? What do you need to do to prepare for an ITDR solution? What resources are needed to manage and support it? 

This workshop was created to help answer questions  around the what, why, and how of ITDR.

The benefits of the workshop include:

  • An understanding of what ITDR is (and isn’t) and what value it brings
  • How ITDR fits in the IAM ecosystem, and how it enables capabilities that are more than the sum of the IAM parts
  • What vendors exist today, and their strengths and weaknesses
  • Where we see ITDR heading, and what that means for planning
  • The approach to building a strategy and roadmap for ITDR
  • The value of identity intelligence and holistic reporting of security posture
  • Pitfalls to avoid in an ITDR program

 

By the end of the workshop, you will be able to clearly articulate and understand ITDR, the technologies used, how they interact, and how to approach building a strategy and blueprint.

Learn More
IAM - Advisory - Director as a Service

ITDR Advisory

Building the case for ITDR requires planning and care. The current environment needs to be documented for full visibility of requirements and use cases. Those requirements need to be mapped against the tooling available and ensure all requirements can be met. The plan for how to implement ITDR, and the accompanying roadmap, need to be developed. How the new platform will be managed and administered needs to be understood. And just as crucially, socialization and adoption with technical and business leadership so that they agree to invest in the technology and provide the key support needed for success. Our ITDR Advisory engagement helps answer all these questions and more.

There are also common pitfalls, and our Advisory can help identify those so they can be avoided successfully. 

  • Dive into current IAM state to develop an understanding of how people, processes, and technology are being used to manage identity security
  • Develop an understanding of your desired maturity for ITDR, and develop a future state roadmap to reach outcomes you need
  • Make recommendations on vendor best fit, as well as estimate cost and implementation services
  • Build a roadmap that shows the workstreams and phases for your ITDR journey, along with key milestones and wins
  • Present the strategy to various audiences for socialization and buy-in
 
 

At the end of the engagement, you will have a clear understanding of what to do, why to do it, and how to get it done. In addition, you can demonstrate to leadership and other stakeholders the need for this type of solution, get their buy-in for the investment that is needed for ITDR, and socialize the effort that will be required of everyone to make it work as designed.

Learn More

ITDR Architecture

ITDR architecture can be difficult to design. Many organizations struggle to know where to start. Our ITDR Architecture service brings our experts to the table to help understand what ITDR is, what value it brings to identity security, and the critical piece it plays in a Zero Trust approach. This project will allow you to see how ITDR would fit your organization, and what that would mean to people, process, and technology.

If you are evaluating a solution and would like to understand the implemented architecture and integrations, we can help. Our architecture services can help build designs and technical documentation to support your ITDR project. We will:

  • Develop an understanding of current state architecture to build from
  • Bring in vendor requirements, use cases, and organizational requirements as input to a future state design
  • Build out the future state design showing placement, integrations, and data flows
  • Work with IT and IAM teams to knowledge transfer and educate on what a deployed ITDR solution means for capabilities and operations
 

Gain a clear view of what a deployed ITDR solution would look like, and what platform integrations will be needed to fully enable the solution. Engage us to help you build this technical view so you can ensure that you understand what the end goal is, and help your teams also gain that vision.

Learn More

ITDR Architecture

If you have an approved project to deploy ITDR, Xalient can help you move forward so that you build a team with the needed skills and experience.  Our team can follow the Advisory roadmap and strategy to ensure you achieve ROI quickly and build a holistic solution.

  • Bring in a full deployment team to design, test, and implement ITDR
  • Establish key roles that may be missing on the implementation team, such engineering, or administrative support
  • Provide expert overlay to compliment your team
  • Help train your team so that they can help support your solutions
  • Provide long term managed support for ITDR in operations

 

ITDR can be a source of intelligence for other systems in the security suite, such as a SOC or SOAR, and can be integrated with these platforms for an even greater capability across security. Security and business leaders can also receive reporting and score cards that will drive more informed decision making on where to focus effort and resources to tighten up security controls and meet control objectives that are described in policy and regulatory frameworks. This is a comprehensive view of identity security, and is a powerful asset in determining the best actions to take to apply security and mitigate risk.

Learn More

Why Xalient Can Help with ITDR

Xalient can help by advising on the current state of your identity suite, developing a roadmap to fill identified gaps, and a plan to deploy ITDR in your environment. 

  • We have decades of experience across all areas of Identity Security

  • We have elite Vendor expertise but are fiercely vendor-agnostic

  • Holistic Approach: Our success is driven by our ability to provide guidance and leadership to help ensure you make the right decisions

  • Managed Services: We can provide cost-effective solutions to help plan, implement, monitor, and support your Identity Security program

It is difficult, but achievable, and well worth the effort to achieve holistic and comprehensive control of identity security across your environment. Let’s start a conversation with one of our ITDR experts.  They can answer any initial questions you have about our Identity Threat Detection and Response services and any other related topics.

Learn More About Our ITDR Advisory Services