5 Essential ITDR Steps CISOs Must Know

Semperis argues AI-driven attacks are outpacing identity teams as machine identities outnumber human ones 10:1, and urges building organization-wide cyber resilience around hybrid identity protection before the next crisis.

Wortell's Maarten Goet tells the HIP Podcast that strong ITDR starts with understanding your identity environment, since most organizations lack visibility into rights and system connections.

Syncing Domain Admins into Entra ID lets attackers pivot from compromised on-prem AD to the cloud, and back via password writeback. CIS and Microsoft advise keeping privileged admin accounts cloud-only.

SpecterOps argues identity risk now extends beyond Tier Zero, as attackers increasingly use legitimate credentials and trusted relationships to reach backups, regulated data, and other critical workloads.

Compliance keeps you out of trouble, resilience keeps you in business: six tips for CISOs to align pentesting with compliance cycles, PTaaS, and framework mapping.

Learn how to turn technical findings from penetration testing into executive action with a five-step approach for maximizing pentesting value.