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Identity Threat Defense

Minimize Your Blast Radius

Identify, visualize, and reduce the potential damage of any compromised identity before an attack happens.

The Concept

What is Blast Radius?

In identity security, blast radius is the total scope of resources a person, service account, or workload can reach through direct access, group membership, or role assumption.

A large blast radius means a single compromised credential can create a much bigger incident. Reducing it means containing the threat early.

Why It Matters

  • Lateral movement prevention
  • Ransomware containment
  • Data exfiltration limits
  • Least-privilege compliance
  • NIS2 Art. 21(2)(i) access control for all identities

Case Study: The "Luca" Scenario

How a harmless intern account became a critical threat vector.

The Identity

Luca, a summer intern, joins the company. He needs access to Slack and Jira for his project.

The Mistake

The Group

To fix a permission issue quickly, an admin adds Luca to the "DevOps" group instead of creating a specific role.

The Impact

The DevOps group has inherited rights to production databases. Luca now has full write access to critical customer data.

How Cydenti Solves This

Cydenti's Identity Graph automatically maps this path. It sees that Luca (Intern) -> DevOps (Group) -> Prod DB (Resource) exists, but Luca never actually uses the database.

Detects toxic combination
Recommends safe removal
remediation.jsonAuto-Fix Ready
action: "remove_member"
group: "DevOps"
user: "luka.h@company.com"
# Reasoning: Unused high-risk access

Case Study: The "Zombie" Service Account

Non-human identities are often the biggest silent risk.

Build-Bot-2024

Created 2 years ago for a migration project.

Permissions Granted
Role: Editor (Full Project Access)
Actual Usage (Last 90 Days)
S3: PutObject (logs-bucket only)
99% Over-Privileged

How Cydenti Rightsizes It

Service accounts do not complain when access is reduced. Cydenti analyzes actual API calls made by the bot over time and compares them to assigned permissions.

1

Drift Detection

Flags account as "Dormant Admin" due to lack of admin activity.

2

Least Privilege Policy Gen

Auto-generates a Terraform/IAM policy allowing only s3:PutObject on logs-bucket.

3

Automated Cleanup

Removes the "Editor" role binding entirely.

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