Organisations struggling to manage identity-based attacks and understand their unstructured data can get genuine benefits from AI-powered identity solutions, according to Delinea.
Colleen Lerch, writing for the privileged access management (PAM) specialist, wrote via the vendor’s website that AI can help where security, analytics and reporting teams need to address risk without “deep knowledge” of PAM.
“How many members of these teams can independently dive into your identity governance models or privileged data sets, ask the right questions, and interpret the information?” she said.
AI could be a “more than decorative” solution complementing in-house practitioners including security ops centre (SOC) analysts or internal auditors, reducing the resource needed to build risk-scoring models, develop identity related queries, or comb through logs – tasks that many teams may not be doing at all, she suggested.
“Those teams could be more effective and efficient with AI and advanced automation,” said Lerch.
Lerch pointed to a global survey by Delinea that found 40% of respondents’ views aligned with this – citing “monitoring and reporting” as their top expectation for AI. IT and security leaders told Delinea they were expecting to use AI to improve identity security, she added.
In Delinea’s identity security platform, AI capabilities are focused on session recording, auditing, and risk scoring.
While analyst firm Gartner had suggested that while AI was at an early stage when it comes to access administration the tech was “progressing rapidly in both vendor product availability and customer interest”.
“These capabilities deliver immense time savings by proactively identifying anomalies in privilege sessions, reducing dwell time of cyber threats and negative impact on business performance,” Lerch maintained.
In session recordings, Delinea automatically surfaces early indicators of potential cyber incidents, such as authorisation and privilege elevation failures, and unexpected deletions and downloads, that are easy to miss among all the normal events, according to the same post.
The vendor is also expected to roll out “conversational AI” enabled by generative pre-trained transformer (GPT) tech for customer support, she added.
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