ITDR Identity Threat Detection & Response
Behavioral monitoring of Active Directory, Entra ID, Okta and federated identity providers. Catches credential abuse, BEC, impossible travel, OAuth abuse and Golden Ticket attacks.
ITDR monitors the identity layer itself: Active Directory, Entra ID, Okta and federated providers, watching authentication and directory activity for signs of abuse. The attacks it looks for are the ones that use valid credentials, including password spraying, impossible-travel sign-ins, multi-factor fatigue, anomalous consent grants, suspicious directory replication, Kerberos ticket abuse and the creation of persistence through new accounts or altered group membership.
It exists because the other identity tools are preventive rather than observational. IAM decides who is allowed to do what, and PAM constrains how privilege is held and elevated. Neither is designed to notice that a legitimate account is behaving unlike itself, and an attacker holding working credentials does nothing that violates policy. That gap is exactly where modern intrusions live, because stolen or phished credentials are cheaper than exploits.
The practical difficulty is that identity signals are meaningless in isolation. One failed login is noise, and a login from a new country is a holiday far more often than a breach. Detection depends on correlation: the same account failing across many systems, then succeeding, then enrolling a new multi-factor device, then granting an OAuth application access to mail. Vijilan’s SOC treats identity as a first-class telemetry source alongside endpoint and network rather than as an afterthought.
Common questions
What does ITDR stand for?
ITDR stands for Identity Threat Detection and Response. It covers the tooling and practice of monitoring identity systems such as Active Directory, Entra ID and Okta for attacks that abuse legitimate accounts, and responding when one is found.
What is the difference between ITDR and IAM?
IAM is the control plane that grants access and enforces policy: it decides who may do what. ITDR is the detection layer that watches how those identities are actually used and flags abuse. IAM will happily authorise an attacker holding valid credentials, because from its point of view nothing is wrong. ITDR is what notices the behavior behind the login.
What attacks does ITDR detect?
Typically password spraying and credential stuffing, impossible-travel and anomalous-location sign-ins, multi-factor fatigue and push bombing, malicious OAuth consent grants, suspicious directory replication, Kerberos ticket abuse, and persistence created through new accounts or changes to privileged group membership.
ITDR is one signal.
We watch the rest.
Vijilan runs a 24/7 SOC across endpoint, identity, cloud, network, SaaS and mobile, and acts on what it finds rather than forwarding an alert.