SIEM and SOAR—and Identity Security

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.

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.

GitLab's Signals Engineering team built WATCH, a breach and attack simulation framework that runs real malicious behavior to verify detections fire end-to-end from log source through SIEM and SOAR.

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.

Semperis introduces Migrator for Active Directory 2.0, an update aimed at helping organizations move Active Directory environments with confidence and greater operational control.

Why SIEMs alone can't secure AD monitoring: attackers bypass AD logs (DCShadow), and SIEMs face collection limits, configuration errors, processing gaps, stale threat intel, and false positives.