Identity Protection
Protect your digital identity from evolving cyber threats as criminals leverage AI for more sophisticated attacks
Why Compromised Credentials Are Cyber Criminals’ Top Target
Cyber identity threats are on the rise due to the growing reliance on digital platforms and the ability of cyber criminals to utilise AI for sophisticated cyber-attacks.
Nowadays, 80% of breaches involve compromised credentials. As businesses and individuals expand their online presence, sensitive data such as login credentials, financial information, and personal identifiers have become prime targets for attackers.
The proliferation of connected devices and remote work has expanded attack surfaces, while methods like phishing, credential theft, and identity fraud have become more advanced, exploiting human and system vulnerabilities with precision. As a result, 37% of CISOs ranked Identity Theft as their number one risk for 2025.
Active Directory
Attackers utilising stolen credentials presents a significant challenge for cyber security professionals. To protect an organisation from modern attacks, it is important they have a secure Active Directory (AD) identity store in place. The AD centrally stores vital information within an organisation, ranging from users, to groups, to customer data.
A compromise to an organisation’s AD exposes the identity infrastructure and creates a large attack surface for malicious actors. Therefore, it is not surprising that in many recent public cyber-attacks, criminals have targeted the AD. For example, the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack occurred when malicious actors gained access to compromised credentials via the AD which then allowed them to move laterally through the network.
Active Directory Attacks
Supply chain attacks are the most frequent consequence of targeting an organisations AD. Once an attacker has gained access to compromised credentials, it makes it easier for them to move around. The AD is essentially a unified store of confidential information, meaning that once it is accessed, attackers have the keys many doors within an organisation.
Ransomware has also emerged as a lucrative method of attack for cyber criminals, with over 3,600 publicly reported ransomware victims, in just the first three quarters of 2024. This has had a direct impact on cyber insurance premiums, as insurer losses caused by an increasing number of ransomware attacks has raised the industry standards which organisations must comply with. In severe cases, this has led to industry wide coverage shortages, such as in the healthcare industry which is now considered too ‘high-risk’.
The Red Helix Solution
Red Helix Identity Protection enhances the visibility and security of your digital landscape against identity-based threats. Our Security Operations Centre (SOC) works in tandem with the CrowdStrike Falcon platform, monitoring user behaviour and risk analytics to identify in real-time malicious or suspect behaviour.
To enhance defence against identity-based threat Red Helix also delivers Multi-Factor Authentication and Security Awareness training to makes it more difficult for cyber criminals to gain access to your systems with stolen credentials or by instigating human error.
Implementing these measures not only reduces risk but is also a significant benefit for helping businesses to meet regulatory and compliance standards by demonstrating cyber resilience. Many modern cyber-attacks are identity-based, so this platform ensures security around every identity, whether its on-prem, cloud, or hybrid.
| Feature | Identity Threat Detection | Identity Threat Protection |
|---|---|---|
| Microsoft AD accounts analysis |  | |
| Azure AD accounts analysis | | |
| Insights and analytics | | |
| Security assessment | | |
| Detection of AD security incidents | | |
| Deep packet inspection of live traffic | | |
| Real-time threat detection for authentication and authorisation access requests | | |
| Real-time cloud activity visibility, baselining and monitoring for federated access | | |
| Near real-time cloud activity visibility, baselining and monitoring using events analysis | | |
| Policy creation for monitoring or enforcement | | |
| Real-time cloud activity enforcement (e.g., block, MFA) | | |
| Real-time enforcement and secured access to Microsoft AD (e.g., block, MFA) | | |
| Custom threat detection | | |
| Reports | | |
| Threat hunting | | |
| API support | | |
| Email integration to report events | | |
| Technical support | | |
Key Benefits
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