In spite of the growing complexity of cyber threats, the primary method for unauthorized access still revolves around phished credentials (Verizon DBIR, 2024). By addressing this issue, you can mitigate over 80% of your corporate risk, with viable solutions within reach.
Yet, most existing tools in the market are incapable of providing a comprehensive defense against this threat vector due to their probabilistic design. Discover more about the unique features of Beyond Identity that enable us to offer decisive protection.
The Obstacle: Phishing and Credential Theft
Phishing schemes deceive users into disclosing their credentials through fraudulent websites or messages delivered via SMS, email, and/or voice calls. Conventional security measures, such as user training or rudimentary multi-factor authentication (MFA), can only minimize the risk at best but are not foolproof. Users are still susceptible to scams, enabling exploitation of stolen credentials. The issue is exacerbated by the inadequacies of legacy MFA, as attackers now bypass MFA on a large scale, prompting bodies like NIST, CISA, OMB, and NYDFS to issue advisories for MFA that are resilient against phishing attacks.
Beyond Identity’s Strategy: Decisive Security
Exterminate Phishing
Traditional secrets like passwords and OTPs are inherently weak, as they can be intercepted or stolen. Beyond Identity employs public-private key cryptography, namely passkeys, to circumvent these risks and avoids relying on phishable factors like OTPs, push notifications, or magic links.
While public key cryptography is robust, safeguarding private keys is paramount. Beyond Identity leverages secure enclaves – specialized hardware components that protect private keys and prevent unauthorized access or transfer. By ensuring all authentications are impervious to phishing and utilizing device-bound, hardware-backed credentials, Beyond Identity furnishes robust protection against phishing attacks.
Thwart Verifier Impersonation
It is impossible for humans to distinguish legitimate links. To counter this, Beyond Identity authentication relies on a Platform Authenticator to verify the authenticity of access requests. This approach aids in preventing attacks that rely on emulating legitimate websites.
Abolish Credential Stuffing
Credential stuffing involves bad actors testing stolen username and password combinations to gain illicit access. Typically, the attack is automated.
Beyond Identity combats this by completely eliminating passwords from the authentication process. Our passwordless, phishing-resistant MFA enables users to log in with a touch or glance, supporting a wide range of operating systems including Windows, Android, macOS, iOS, Linux, and ChromeOS, facilitating seamless logins across devices.
Eliminate Push Bombing Attacks
Push bombing attacks inundate users with an excessive number of push notifications, leading to unwitting approvals of unauthorized access. Beyond Identity mitigates this risk by eschewing reliance on push notifications.
Additionally, our phishing-resistant MFA enables security checks on every device, managed or unmanaged, leveraging natively collected and integrated third-party risk signals to ensure device compliance irrespective of the device.
Enforce Device Security Compliance
During authentication, it is not just the user logging in, but also their device. Beyond Identity is the lone IAM solution on the market that delivers finely-tuned access control accounting for real-time device risks during authentication and continuously throughout active sessions.
The primary benefit of a Platform Authenticator is its ability to resist verifier impersonation. Another advantage is that, residing on the device as an application, it provides real-time data on the device’s status, such as enabled firewall, biometrics, disk encryption, and more.
By incorporating the Beyond Identity Platform Authenticator, you can ensure user identity authenticity through phishing-resistant authentication and enforce device security adherence for accessing resources.
Integrate Risk Signals for Adaptive Access
Due to the array of security tools available, risk signals can originate from various disparate sources, including mobile device management (MDM), endpoint detection and response (EDR), Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA), and Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) tools. The effectiveness of adaptive, risk-based access is contingent on the breadth, freshness, and comprehensiveness of risk signals utilized in policy decisions.
Beyond Identity offers a flexible integration framework to avert vendor lock-in and reduce administrative complexity and maintenance overheads. Furthermore, our policy engine facilitates continuous authentication, enabling comprehensive risk compliance enforcement during active sessions.
Ready to explore security impervious to phishing?
Do not leave your organization vulnerable with outdated security measures when solutions exist to significantly diminish your threat exposure and eradicate credential theft.
With Beyond Identity, you can secure access to critical resources with conclusive security. Reach out for a personalized demonstration to experience firsthand how the solution functions and learn about our security assurances.
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