{"id":788111,"date":"2023-10-04T13:05:24","date_gmt":"2023-10-04T17:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marketnewsdesk.com\/index.php\/okta-launches-identity-threat-protection-with-okta-ai-for-real-time-detection-and-response\/"},"modified":"2023-10-04T13:05:24","modified_gmt":"2023-10-04T17:05:24","slug":"okta-launches-identity-threat-protection-with-okta-ai-for-real-time-detection-and-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marketnewsdesk.com\/index.php\/okta-launches-identity-threat-protection-with-okta-ai-for-real-time-detection-and-response\/","title":{"rendered":"Okta Launches Identity Threat Protection with Okta AI for Real-Time Detection and Response"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Okta Launches Identity Threat Protection with Okta AI for Real-Time Detection and Response<\/b><\/p>\n

Organizations can now continuously assess user risk and automatically respond to Identity threats across their technology ecosystem<\/i><\/p>\n

SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE<\/a>)–OKTANE 2023 \u2014 <\/b>Okta, Inc.<\/a> (NASDAQ: OKTA), the leading independent Identity partner, announced Identity Threat Protection with Okta AI<\/a> (Identity Threat Protection), a new product for Okta Workforce Identity Cloud<\/a> that delivers real-time detection and response for Identity-based threats.Built with Okta AI and powered by insights pulled from an organization\u2019s security stack, Identity Threat Protection extends security beyond initial authentication to any time a user is logged in. This allows admins and security teams to continuously assess user risk throughout active sessions, and automatically respond to Identity threats across their entire ecosystem.<\/p>\n

\nOrganizations are adopting an increasing number of cybersecurity tools to keep pace with evolving threats, forcing admins and security teams to sift through an overwhelming amount of granular security data to establish effective policies and detect and respond to critical threats. This fragmentation leads to navigating multiple consoles, and makes it difficult to track the risk of any given user session over time. Because Identity is uniformly deployed across an organization\u2019s tech stack, Okta is uniquely positioned to assess risk across security domains and throughout active user sessions. This dynamic approach addresses a significant concern for businesses as, according to Gartner<\/a>, \u201corganizations that embrace a continuous adaptive trust approach by 2025 will reduce [account takeover] and other identity risks by 30%…\u201d1<\/sup><\/p>\n

\n\u201cYou can\u2019t defend what you can\u2019t see, and Identity is a powerful tool to connect everything,\u201d said Sagnik Nandy, President and Chief Development Officer of Workforce Identity Cloud at Okta. \u201cOrganizations need the ability to not only bring together risk insights at the point of login, but also to re-evaluate at any point in a user\u2019s session. Identity Threat Protection extends Okta\u2019s adaptive risk analysis and delivers automatic remediation and response, helping businesses stop potential threats in real-time.\u201d<\/p>\n

\nWhile multi-factor authentication (MFA) is a mainstay for combating Identity-based attacks, its effectiveness is often limited to the point of login. The growing risk of post-authentication threats, such as session hijacking, Adversary-in-the-Middle (AiTM), and MFA bypass attacks via phishing, is pushing organizations to extend their Identity-powered security capabilities beyond the point of authentication.<\/p>\n

Extending Identity to Security Response Operations<\/b><\/p>\n

\nIdentity Threat Protection includes integrations built in collaboration with a robust ecosystem of partners including CrowdStrike, Jamf, Material Security, Netskope, Palo Alto Networks, SGNL, Trellix, Zimperium, and Zscaler. The product leverages a standards-based event pipeline to extract insights from various security technologies. When Identity Threat Protection detects an unusual event \u2014 whether it be a change in IP address or device context \u2014 admin-configured policies and features can initiate certain actions, such as immediately ending the active user session across supported applications where the organization has the feature enabled. This rapid, coordinated response capability not only allows organizations to neutralize Identity threats more effectively, but it also positions Identity Threat Protection as the connective tissue across the tech stack.<\/p>\n

\n\u201cBefore companies can embrace new technologies with confidence, they need to ensure their security strategies are designed to outpace threats,\u201d said Meerah Rajavel, CIO at Palo Alto Networks. \u201cOur world-class threat intelligence innovations help secure enterprises against evolving attack methods. Collaborating with Okta\u2019s Identity Threat Protection is a great opportunity to further empower enterprises with security signal sharing, helping them to better detect changes in user risk across their tech stack.\u201d<\/p>\n

\nBy leveraging shared signals throughout a user\u2019s active session, Identity Threat Protection empowers organizations to mitigate risk with richer threat detection and response capabilities. Initial capabilities at launch include:<\/p>\n