Account hijacking attacks targeting everything from sensitive medical data to customer loyalty points are the most frequent and costly cyber threats. According to Verizon's 2022 Data Breach Investigations Report, 80% of corporate breaches are known to be related to identity solution breaches.

Okta, an independent identity provider, announced on the 7th that it is officially launching 'Security Center' for all customers. By utilizing 'Security Center,' companies can reduce the effort of developing tools in-house and identify and respond to identity threats in a timely manner. It was emphasized that corporate customers can effectively understand their identity security environment through a screen that summarizes major attack types, authentication events, and threat monitoring.

With this new feature, enterprise customers can leverage insights from the Okta Customer Identity Cloud to gain a single view of authentication events, potential security incidents, and threat response efficacy, and optimize their identity security posture.

It also provides real-time data on the current status of attack protection, basic threat monitoring of key identity attack vectors, and application-level visibility into authentication traffic.

Determining whether a company's identity security posture is too restrictive or too lax is a critical issue, and currently, this must be done by analyzing logs provided by third-party tools or developing it in-house.

Expert-level experience is required for enterprises to effectively identify attacks and prepare a response. The 'Security Center' provides an improved method to display this type of data directly within the 'OCTA Customer Identity Cloud'.

The 'Security Center' leverages security insights from the 'OCTA Customer Identity Cloud' to provide CISOs, security experts, and identity management teams with a way to detect and respond to identity threats more quickly. It provides a concise view of authentication events, potential incidents, and threat response efficacy, enabling customers to optimize their security posture without the need for self-learning or investment.

In addition, companies can measure the impact on the end-user experience using the Attack Protection feature in the 'Security Center'. For customer-facing apps, it is necessary to minimize friction to strike a balance between security and user experience while providing adequate protection against identity attacks.

The 'Security Center' shows app managers the effect of defensive tactics on user experience in near real-time, allowing them to adjust their security posture and friction levels according to the situation. Companies can fine-tune their attack protection strategies while observing the impact of defensive tactics such as multi-factor authentication (MFA), rate limiting, and CAPTCHA on applications in near real-time.

Jameeka Aaron, Chief Information Security Officer for Customer Identity at Octa, explained, “When considering various other business objectives such as customer acquisition, retention, and growth, accurate detection alone cannot guarantee that an enterprise is responding appropriately to the level of threat risk. As attacks on identity flows become more sophisticated and evolve to evade detection, enterprise security teams often need to enhance their proficiency through learning within their own operating environments.”

He stated, “Therefore, attack detection is delayed and can result in business losses, and the ‘Security Center’ leverages our intensive expertise in identity security to enable corporate security personnel to understand and take immediate action.”