Detection for token theft, anomalous sign-ins, and the slow lateral moves that don't trigger a normal MFA prompt. Built on the Microsoft 365 and Entra ID signals you already have.
Multifactor authentication is necessary, but it is no longer sufficient on its own. Modern attacks live in the space MFA can't see: a stolen session token, a second authenticator quietly registered behind a legitimate login, a conditional-access exception that has outlived the project it was created for. Identity threat detection and response watches that space. It runs on the Microsoft 365 and Entra ID signals you already generate, looking for the patterns that mean an account has been taken over even though every login looked technically valid.
Impossible travel, a new device paired with a new country and a new application, sign-ins at hours that account never works. The combinations that mean a session has been hijacked, surfaced and triaged rather than buried in a log nobody reads.
Detection for refresh-token theft, the attack that lets an intruder ride a valid session without ever facing an MFA prompt. We flag long-lived and anomalous sessions and enforce sign-out the moment something looks wrong, ending the access instead of just noting it.
When a new authenticator or security key gets added to an account, we know within minutes. Registering a second factor on a compromised account is how attackers make their access permanent, so this is one of the highest-value signals to watch.
Policies that quietly age out of relevance, exceptions that were meant to be temporary, and the quarterly cleanup that keeps the whole policy set from rotting. We treat the conditional-access configuration as a living thing, not a one-time setup. More on MFA and Conditional Access.
Admin and global-admin accounts are the prize, so they get closer scrutiny: new role assignments, unusual administrative actions, and consent grants to third-party apps that could quietly siphon mail or files out of the tenant.
A written account-takeover playbook, run in order: revoke active sessions, sweep for malicious mailbox rules, reset credentials, and remove any rogue authenticator. Containment first, investigation second, a phone call to you when it's handled. Inside MDR coverage.
Attackers adapted, the way they always do once a defense becomes common. Instead of stealing the password, they phish the session token that gets minted after a valid login, then replay it from their own machine and never see an MFA prompt at all. They register a second device behind a sign-in that looked legitimate, so they can come back whenever they like. They find the conditional-access exception a previous provider added in 2022 for one traveling executive and never removed, and they walk straight through it. None of that trips a standard alert. All of it is sitting in your identity logs, plainly visible, if someone is actually watching them.
We watch them. The detections are tuned to your environment, so impossible-travel alerts account for the regional sales rep who really is in three cities this week, and the noise that would otherwise train people to ignore the dashboard gets filtered out. The response runbook is written, rehearsed, and ready, not a vague intention buried in a knowledge base, because the difference between a contained incident and a disaster is measured in minutes, and the middle of the night is the worst time to be improvising.
Identity is the perimeter now. The firewall still matters, but the way most modern intrusions begin is with a legitimate-looking login from a credential or token an attacker obtained, not with someone battering the network edge. Watching identity closely, and responding fast when it goes wrong, is where the real protection lives.
ITDR is only useful if a detection leads to action fast. We build the pipeline so the path from a suspicious sign-in to a revoked session is short, documented, and the same every time.
We tap the Microsoft 365 and Entra ID signals you already produce. No agent to deploy, no new platform for your team to learn. The data is there; we put eyes and rules on it.
We learn what normal looks like for your people: where they sign in from, which apps they use, when they work. Anomaly detection is only as good as the baseline it's measured against.
Tuned rules and analyst review surface the sign-ins, token anomalies, and new-factor registrations that matter, with the routine noise filtered out so the alerts that fire are worth acting on.
When something is real, we run the takeover playbook, revoke sessions, sweep mailbox rules, rotate credentials, then call you with a written timeline once the account is locked back down.
Identity threat detection fits businesses that have already done the obvious work, MFA is on, conditional access exists, and still understand that determined attackers get past those controls. We see the clearest need at firms running on Microsoft 365 or Entra ID where a single compromised executive or finance account would be expensive, at regulated organizations that have to show they monitor for account takeover, and at companies that inherited a tangle of conditional-access exceptions from a previous provider and have no idea which ones are still safe. If your security stops at "we turned on MFA," this is the layer that catches what MFA misses. It builds directly on our MFA work, lives inside managed detection and response for clients who want full coverage, and reinforces email security, since a phished link is often where the token theft begins.
MFA stops most password-based attacks, but attackers now steal session tokens, register rogue authenticators, and abuse stale exceptions, none of which trigger an MFA prompt. ITDR watches the identity activity behind the login to catch those bypasses. Think of MFA as the lock on the door and ITDR as the camera that notices someone already inside.
MDR is broad: it watches endpoints, network, cloud, and identity together. ITDR is the identity-focused slice, specialized in account takeover, token theft, and conditional-access drift. Many clients take ITDR on its own to shore up identity, and for others it's simply one capability inside their fuller MDR coverage. We'll recommend the right fit on the first call.
No. ITDR runs on the sign-in, audit, and token telemetry your Microsoft 365 and Entra ID environment already generates. There's nothing to deploy to laptops and no new platform for your staff to log into. We connect to the existing signals, add the detection logic and analyst review, and the work happens behind the scenes.
For high-confidence takeover signals, response is measured in minutes, and for the highest-risk accounts we can enforce automatic session sign-out the moment criteria are met. The playbook runs in a set order: revoke sessions, check for malicious mailbox rules, rotate credentials, and remove any rogue authenticator, then we call you once the account is secured.
Not if it's tuned, which is most of the work. We baseline normal behavior for your people first, so a sales rep legitimately traveling doesn't generate a page, and analysts review borderline cases before anything reaches you. Untuned identity alerting is noisy enough that teams learn to ignore it, which defeats the purpose. Quiet, accurate alerting is the deliverable.
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