While cyber threats are becoming more sophisticated, the number one attack vector for unauthorized access remains fraudulent credentials (Verizon DBIR, 2024). Addressing this problem addresses more than 80% of your enterprise risks, and a solution is possible.
However, most tools available on the market today cannot offer complete protection against this attack vector because they are designed to provide probabilistic protection. Learn more about Beyond Identity’s features that enable us to build deterministic defenses.
The problem: Phishing and credential theft
Phishing attacks trick users into revealing their credentials through fraudulent websites or messages sent via SMS, email, and/or voice calls. Traditional defenses, such as end-user education or basic multi-factor authentication (MFA), at best reduce the risk, but cannot eliminate it. Users can still fall victim to fraud and stolen credentials can be exploited. Outdated MFA is a particularly pressing issue given that attackers are now bypassing MFA at scale, prompting NIST, CISA, OMB, and NYDFS to issue guidelines for phishing-resistant MFA.
Beyond the identity approach: deterministic security
Turn off phishing
Shared secrets like passwords and OTPs are inherently vulnerable because they can be intercepted or stolen. Beyond Identity uses public and private key cryptography or access keys to avoid these risks and never resorts to phishing factors such as OTPs, push notifications or magic links.
Although public key cryptography is reliable, the security of private keys is critical. Beyond Identity uses secure enclaves—specialized hardware components that protect private keys and prevent unauthorized access or movement. By making all authentications phishing-proof and using hardware-based credentials tied to the device, Beyond Identity provides assurance against phishing attacks.
Preventing impersonation of the verifier
Recognizing legitimate links is impossible for humans. To solve this problem, Beyond Identity authentication relies on a platform authenticator that verifies the origin of access requests. This method helps prevent attacks that are based on impersonating legitimate sites.
Turn off credential stuffing
Credential dumping is an attack where attackers check stolen username and password pairs to try to gain access. As a rule, the attack is carried out in an automated way.
Beyond Identity solves this by removing passwords from the authentication process entirely. Our passwordless, phishing-resistant MFA allows users to log in with a touch or a glance and supports the widest range of operating systems on the market, including Windows, Android, macOS, iOS, Linux and ChromeOS, so users can log in seamlessly without depending on which device they prefer to use.
Eliminate Push Bombing attacks
Push Bombing attacks flood users with an excessive number of push notifications, resulting in accidental permissions for unauthorized access. Beyond Identity reduces this risk by not relying on push notifications.
In addition, our phishing-resistant MFA allows you to verify device security on every device, managed and unmanaged, using our own collected and integrated third-party risk signals, so you can ensure compliance regardless of the device.
Force device security
During authentication, not only the user logs in, but also their device. Beyond Identity is the only IAM solution on the market that provides granular access control that considers device risk in real-time during authentication and continuously during active sessions.
The first benefit of a platform authenticator is the ability to provide impersonation resistance to the verifier. The second advantage is that, as an app that lives on the device, it can provide real-time data about the risk of the device, such as whether the firewall is enabled, biometrics, disk encryption enabled, and more.
By installing the Beyond Identity Platform Authenticator, you can ensure user identity with phishing-resistant authentication and ensure security compliance on the requesting device.
Integration of risk signals for adaptive access
Given the proliferation of security tools, risk signals can come from a variety of different sources, ranging from mobile device management (MDM), endpoint detection and response (EDR), zero-trust network access (ZTNA), and Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) tools ). An adaptive risk-based approach is only as strong as the breadth, freshness, and comprehensiveness of the risk signals that feed into its policy decisions.
Beyond Identity provides a flexible integration architecture that prevents vendor lock-in and reduces administrative management and maintenance complexity. Additionally, our policy engine enables continuous authentication, so you can ensure full risk compliance even during active sessions.
Ready to experience phishing-resistant security?
Don’t let outdated security measures leave your organization vulnerable when there are solutions available that can significantly reduce threats and eliminate credential theft.
With Beyond Identity, you can protect access to critical resources with deterministic security. Get in touch for a personalized demo to see first-hand how the solution works and understand how we provide security guarantees.
