As cyber threats become increasingly sophisticated, phished credentials remain the number one attack vector for unauthorized access (Verizon DBIR, 2024). Solving this problem would eliminate over 80% of enterprise risk, and the solution is possible.
However, most tools currently available on the market are designed to provide probabilistic defenses and therefore cannot provide complete defense against this attack vector. Learn more about Beyond Identity’s features that enable it to provide a deterministic defense.
The Challenge: Phishing and Credential Theft
Phishing attacks trick users into revealing their credentials through fake sites or messages sent via SMS, email, or voice calls. Traditional defenses such as end-user training and basic multi-factor authentication (MFA) can minimize risk, but not eliminate it entirely. Users can still fall prey to scams, and stolen credentials can still be used in the wrong hands. Legacy MFA is an especially urgent issue, given that attackers have bypassed MFA on a massive scale, prompting NIST, CISA, OMB, and NYDFS to issue guidance on phishing-resistant MFA.
Beyond the Identity Approach: Deterministic Security
Eliminate phishing
Shared secrets like passwords and OTPs are inherently vulnerable as they can be intercepted and stolen. Beyond Identity avoids these risks using public-private key cryptography, or Passkey, and never relies on phishing-able elements like OTPs, push notifications or magic links.
While public key encryption is robust, the security of your private key is crucial. Beyond Identity leverages Secure Enclaves, dedicated hardware components that protect private keys and prevent unauthorized access or movement. By ensuring all authentication is phishing-resistant and leveraging device-bound, hardware-backed credentials, Beyond Identity provides assurance against phishing attacks.
Prevent verifier spoofing
It is impossible for a human to recognize a legitimate link. To address this issue, Beyond Identity authentication relies on the Platform Authenticator, which verifies the origin of the access request. This method helps prevent attacks that mimic legitimate sites.
Eliminate credential stuffing
Credential stuffing is an attack in which bad actors attempt to gain access by testing stolen username and password combinations, and is usually carried out automatically.
Beyond Identity addresses this problem by completely eliminating passwords from the authentication process. Password-free and phishing-resistant MFA lets users log in with a touch or a glance, and with support for the broadest range of operating systems on the market, including Windows, Android, macOS, iOS, Linux and ChromeOS, users can log in seamlessly no matter what device they use.
Eliminate push bombing attacks
Push bombing attacks involve overwhelming users with push notifications, leading them to mistakenly approve unauthorized access. Beyond Identity mitigates this risk by not relying on push notifications.
Additionally, phishing-resistant MFA allows you to perform device security checks on all devices, managed or unmanaged, using natively collected and integrated third-party risk signals, ensuring device compliance regardless of device.
Enhancing device security compliance
During authentication, not only the user but also the device is logged in. Beyond Identity is the only IAM solution on the market that provides granular access control that considers real-time device risk at the time of authentication and continuously during the active session.
The first benefit of a platform authenticator is that it provides resistance to verifier spoofing, and the second benefit is that as an application running on the device, it can provide real-time risk data about the device, such as whether a firewall is enabled, biometric authentication is enabled, disk encryption is enabled, etc.
With Beyond Identity Platform Authenticator, you can ensure user identity with phishing-resistant authentication and enforce security compliance on the device requesting access.
Integration of risk signals for adaptive access
Given the proliferation of security tools, risk signals can come from a variety of sources, including Mobile Device Management (MDM), Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR), Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA), Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) tools, etc. Adaptive risk-based access is only as strong as the breadth, freshness, and comprehensiveness of the risk signals that feed into policy decisions.
Beyond Identity provides a flexible integration architecture that prevents vendor lock-in and reduces management and maintenance complexity for administrators, while its policy engine enables continuous authentication for comprehensive risk compliance enforcement, even during active sessions.
Are you ready to experience phishing-resistant security?
Don’t leave your organization vulnerable with outdated security measures when solutions are available that can significantly reduce the threat landscape and eliminate credential theft.
Beyond Identity enables you to protect access to your critical resources with deterministic security. To see firsthand how the solution works and understand how it provides security assurance, request a personalized demo.
