Survey of 500+ Security & Identity Professionals Shows Dramatic 47-Point Drop in Visibility Confidence as 91% Expect Explosive Growth in AI-Generated Identities in 2026

Permiso Security today released its 2026 State of Identity Security Report, the third annual benchmark examining how organizations manage, secure, and gain visibility into identities across cloud ...

The best ITDR solution for your organization depends on measurable criteria rather than vendor claims: Can it track identities across authentication boundaries from your IdP through cloud ...

Do we have another SalesLoft-style incident on our hands? Based on what we've uncovered so far, it certainly looks that way.

AI adoption is accelerating faster than security teams can track it. While organizations rush to deploy AI agents and integrate AI services across their operations, they're creating massive blind ...

In cybersecurity, we often rush to solutions, implementing detection tools and response platforms, without first answering a fundamental question: What identities do we actually have?

Modern security teams aren’t short on tools; they’re short on clarity. Identity lives across IdPs, cloud accounts, SaaS apps, data stores, CI/CD, and secrets vaults. Each system emits alerts, but few ...

In today’s detection landscape, defenders are overwhelmed by pre-canned dashboards and visualizations that are often aesthetically pleasing but lack actionable insight. While triaging suspicious ...

The speed of artificial intelligence adoption is unprecedented. From automating code generation to powering customer service, AI is no longer a strategic option but a business imperative. Yet, with ...

The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) has been nothing short of revolutionary, but with every new frontier comes a unique set of challenges. For many organizations, the promise of AI is tempered ...

In a year marked by prevalent supply chain breaches, the SalesLoft incident stands out as particularly insidious and complex. This breach represents what may be one of the most comprehensive ...

Microsoft Exchange inbox rules have emerged as a critical attack vector for advanced persistent threat (APT) groups seeking to establish persistence and facilitate data exfiltration within enterprise ...

Social engineering remains one of the most effective methods for initial access, with phishing continuing to be a preferred technique among threat actors. While email is the most common vector, ...

While organizations have become incredibly sophisticated at detecting network threats and endpoint attacks, they're actually getting worse at catching identity-based threats when they matter most.

Permiso Security, the leading identity security company protecting human, non-human, and AI identities across hybrid and multicloud environments, today announced several strategic hires and executive ...

Identity has become the new battleground in cybersecurity. With over 90% of breaches now involving compromised credentials, organizations are scrambling to understand how to protect their identity ...

Intro AWS Managed Active Directory, or the AWS Directory Service, is a service which provides users with an Active Directory environment hosted and managed on AWS infrastructure. However, there are ...

Identity is no longer just an IT concern. It has become the control plane for how organizations operate in the cloud, and attackers know it. As enterprises accelerate adoption of multi-cloud ...

We're thrilled to announce the upcoming launch of Permiso Discover, an identity inventory and visibility tool for human, non-human, and AI. Starting today, you can join the waitlist to gain early ...

At Permiso Security, we’ve always believed that curiosity fuels innovation. What started as a routine investigation into the reliability of AWS CloudTrail logs for monitoring IAM policy changes ...

Identity is the connective tissue of modern IT environments. Every person, workload, service account, and API key relies on identity to access resources. The challenge is that adversaries have ...

Palo Alto, CA – May 1, 2025 — Permiso Security, the leader in real-time identity security, has been honored with the "Most Promising Early-Stage Startup" award at the 2025 SC Awards, announced during ...

We’re excited to announce the launch of the Permiso Platform, the identity security platform that detects and protects against both human and non-human identity threats across your cloud and on-prem ...

Earlier this week, Rippling announced that it had filed a lawsuit against one of their biggest competitors, Deel. The lawsuit alleges that Deel had placed a ‘spy’ within Rippling in order to harvest ...

Azure's "Elevate Access" feature is a critical security control point that deserves more comprehensive technical coverage than it typically receives. At Permiso, our P0 Labs team brings diverse cloud ...

A successful ransomware attack is the culmination of numerous steps performed by a determined attacker: gaining initial access to the victim’s environment, enumerating privileges to identify ...

Introduction The rapid evolution of Cloud Computing over the years has transformed traditional IT infrastructure by providing flexibility, affordability, and broader accessibility to various ...

Introduction In cloud computing, the evolution of serverless technology has significantly transformed how developers build and run applications. Over the years, the adoption of serverless computing ...

Release Marks Ten Open-Source Tools the Startup Has Launched So Far This Year PALO ALTO, CA – November 7, 2024 - Permiso, the leader in real-time identity security, has released a suite of three ...

Intro Attacks on cloud infrastructure have been steadily increasing in quantity, sophistication and scope. Common cryptomining attacks still exists, but the proliferation of BEC (Business Email ...

Introduction In today’s cloud-powered world, keeping your logs secure and intact is more important than ever. AWS CloudTrail serves as the backbone for tracking all activities across your cloud ...

Intro AWSCompromisedKeyQuarantineV2 (v3 was released during the creation of this article) is an AWS policy that attaches to identities whose credentials are leaked. It denies access to certain ...

At Permiso Security, we're committed to building and providing tools that empower teams to maintain high standards of cloud and identity security. Often inspired by a small mixture of in-the-wild ...

Introduction In the labyrinth of modern cloud infrastructure, effective log management is a cornerstone for ensuring operational security and compliance. However, small and medium-sized enterprises ...

Identity security is front, and center given all the recent breaches that include Microsoft, Okta, Cloudflare and Snowflake to name a few. Organizations are starting to realize that a shake-up is ...

Respondents are confident in their identity security posture, despite almost half reporting unauthorized access to their environment coupled with growing concerns over the ability to detect ...

Most organizations are unaware of how large their cloud identity attack surface is, specifically as it relates to the high number of human and non-human that exist in a typical environment. Many ...

Key Takeaways Attacks against GenAI Infrastructure like AWS Bedrock have increased substantially over the last six (6) months. Particularly with exposed access keys. Attackers are hijacking victim ...

Permiso Security is excited to announce the release of the Universal Identity Graph, providing identity security risk visibility for all entity identities, including human and non-human, across all ...

Permiso’s recent product launch provides a centralized hub to secure all human and non-human identities across both cloud and on-premise environments PALO ALTO, CA – September 19, 2024 -- Permiso, ...

We are excited to formally announce the public availability of Azure Activity Log Axe, an open-source tool designed to simplify and improve the analysis of Azure Activity logs. The tool, initially ...

The identity security company has been named a finalist for both Most Promising Early Stage Startup and Best Threat Detection Technology categories

Introduction In today's complex landscape of modern cybersecurity, organizations and cyber-defenders must remain vigilant as adversaries continuously refine their tactics, techniques, and procedures ...

Introduction Proper handling of sensitive information, such as passwords and API keys, is a crucial responsibility for any organization and cybersecurity professional using cloud services for their ...

Summary On May 30, 2024 Snowflake confirmed many clients were affected by an attacker leveraging compromised NHI credentials to perform data theft. In their notice, Snowflake included some indicators ...

Last month Permiso’s P0 Labs released the Cloud Console Cartographer open-source framework and corresponding research presentation at Black Hat Asia in Singapore. Recently we released our full suite ...

Detection and Mitigation The 'Create Snapshot', ‘Create Cloud Instance’, ‘Delete Cloud Instance’, ‘Revert Cloud Instance’ and ‘Modify Cloud Compute Configurations’ features are widely available ...

The MITRE ATT&CK (Adversarial Tactics, Techniques and Common Knowledge) Framework is a globally-accessible knowledge base of adversary tactics and techniques and procedures (TTPs) which are ...

Summary On April 26, 2024 Okta reported observing a large scale credential stuffing attack that shares infrastructure with a campaign previously reported by Cisco Talos. The campaign that Cisco ...

The open-source tool helps security teams easily transcribe log activity generated from events of AWS console sessions

Introduction While most cloud CLI tools provide a one-to-one correlation between an API being invoked and a single corresponding API event being generated in cloud log telemetry, browser-based ...

Introduction As the cybersecurity landscape rapidly evolves, organizations are implementing multi-cloud solutions to advance their digital transformation initiatives. On the other hand, threat actors ...

Permiso’s product offers a deep library of detection signals from known TTPs of modern threat actors and spans coverage across the cloud’s attack surface to detect threats in the cloud more quickly ...

Introduction With the increased activity of threat actor groups like LUCR-3 (Scattered Spider) over the last year, being able to detect the presence of these threat groups in cloud environments ...

Free open source tool detects activity in cloud environments related to well-known threat actors such as LUCR-3 (Scattered Spider), the group responsible for MGM and Caesars breaches last September

Permiso consistently observes that engineers and analysts often struggle with interpreting Azure Monitor Activity Logs, facing confusion and achieving only a partial understanding even after gaining ...

Privileged Identity Management (PIM): PIM is described as a service within Microsoft Entra ID, designed to manage, control, and monitor access to crucial organizational resources, encompassing ...

Cloud security company has been researching and detecting attacks against the identity provider control plane for last several years and built over a hundred detections and signals based on known ...

Your Identity Provider is a Security Guard Think about an identity provider as a security guard in an office building. The goal of the security guard is to ultimately monitor and regulate the access ...

In this two part series, we are going to analyze the role IdPs (identity providers) have played in some high-profile breaches over the last few years and perhaps, more specifically, the last few ...

Cloud security company has tracked the threat actor group for the past year and supported several organizations that have been targeted and impacted by recent attacks. The company's goal is to help ...

Summary LUCR-3 overlaps with groups such as Scattered Spider, Oktapus, UNC3944, and STORM-0875 and is a financially motivated attacker that leverages the Identity Provider (IDP) as initial access ...

For the past several years, the security and engineering community have repeatedly heard the adage that "identity is the new perimeter." While identity has long been a pillar to managing security ...

LogLicker On GitHub: https://github.com/Permiso-io-tools/LogLicker Introduction Logs play a crucial role in monitoring and analyzing system activity, but handling sensitive information within them ...

Summary Developers are not the only people who have adopted the agile methodology for their development processes. From 2023-06-15 to 2023-07-11, Permiso Security’s p0 Labs team identified and ...

In the first few years of Permiso’s journey as a cloud security startup, before raising venture capital and coming out of stealth mode in early 2022, the team spoke to 150-200 security and ...

Summary (the TL;DR) Permiso’s p0 Labs has been tracking a threat actor for the last 18 months. In this article we will describe the attack lifecycle and detection opportunities for the cloud-focused, ...

Commodity threat actors have recently begun to exploit cloud environments for smishing campaigns, employing techniques strikingly similar to those used in SES enumeration and abuse, as we've ...

Summary As the old proverb says, “Great minds think alike”. Many people may not know or remember the second half of that proverb, “Fools seldom differ.” Both sides of these adages are very well ...

Permiso is thrilled to announce our latest release, which includes support for Azure, Azure AD, and Microsoft 365. This release extends our powerful cloud detection and response capabilities by ...

Introduction The Permiso p0 Labs team has one core focus: know everything we can about cloud attacks, and make that knowledge actionable to our customers via detections in our CDR product. When we ...

Managed policies help AWS users simplify the way permissions are assigned. Periodically, AWS will add new permissions to active policies, which offer a new set of permissions to users. Because these ...

In 2022, Permiso's Cloud Detection & Response platform detected a multitude of different security events across client cloud infrastructure environments. In all cases, the detected suspicious and ...

Summary Watering hole attacks are an often underrated technique. On January 29th, 2023 Chris Farris reported to members of the “Cloud Security Forum” slack channel that he saw a google ad delivering ...

Exposed and stolen long lived keys are often the source of incidents we identify in our client’s cloud environments. Detecting the abuse of these keys is an area we focus a lot of effort in. After ...

Summary Attacks during the holidays are more reliable than Santa eating cookies. On December 28, 2022, Permiso Security’s p0 Labs team identified a credential harvesting campaign targeting cloud ...

Introduction While working on detection content for our clients, we often come across situations where logging from cloud providers and identity providers does not contain the level of detail needed. ...

Identity Providers (IDPs), like Okta have always been a juicy target for threat actors of all skill levels. Attackers often still find success with low sophistication techniques like password ...

Summary Permiso Security and ACV Auctions, while collaborating on cloud detection efforts, discovered an impersonation technique in Okta application user assignments. Based on “in the wild” ...

We're excited to announce that Permiso is now SOC 2 Type I certified. This certification signifies that an independent third-party auditor has validated the design of our security program controls ...

We are very excited to announce a major release to our Permiso Alerts Module. This release currently includes dozens of unique cloud detection rules born from the front lines experience of our P0 ...

As organizations continue to accelerate the shift to cloud, adversaries are following. Over the past ten (10) years I have had the opportunity to lead some of the largest and most impactful public ...

At Permiso, we find that the majority of incidents we discover or respond to, start with exposed access keys. Attackers leverage these keys to gain access, then setup a mechanism to establish ...

Attackers are increasingly taking advantage of trusted vendor relationships to perform software and service based supply chain attacks. As cloud adoption continues to grow, we will see sophisticated ...

On April 22, Permiso provided their perspective of CrowdStrike’s recent publication on LemonDuck malware shifting targeting to container and cloud technologies in the CSO Online article “Cryptomining ...

PALO ALTO, CA – January 18, 2022 – Permiso.io, a Palo Alto-based startup that provides the first of its kind in cloud identity detection and response for cloud infrastructures, today announced a $10 ...