Who uses Identity Security Insights

Identity Security Insights is built to support multiple teams across security, identity, and infrastructure. This page helps you understand how the product fits into your role and what you can expect to get out of it.

Whether you're investigating threats, managing cloud access, or improving posture, Insights gives you the visibility and context to act with confidence.

Security Engineers

Security engineers use Insights to detect and investigate identity-based threats with speed.

What you can do:

Correlate privilege and behavior to prioritize real threats
Investigate suspicious logins, privilege misuse, and lateral movement
Visualize escalation paths to Admin across cloud and on-prem systems
Use detections and reports to support incident response

Key features for you:

Detection and Recommendations
True Privilege Graph
Identity Threats and Password Integrity reports
Integrations with SIEMs and SOAR tools

Platform and Cloud Teams

Platform engineers and cloud architects use Insights to understand how access is configured and how it can escalate.

What you can do:

Audit IAM roles and entitlements across AWS, Azure, GCP
Identify misconfigurations and excessive privilege
Monitor escalation paths and dormant accounts
Track posture improvements over time

Key features for you:

Entitlements Pathing report
Cloud Identity & Risk Overview dashboards
Recommendations for cleanup and hardening
Credential hygiene and MFA tracking

Identity Architects and Governance Teams

Identity architects use Insights to validate access models and reduce risk through better design and governance.

What you can do:

Understand how privilege is assigned, inherited, and accumulated
Validate access reviews with True Privilege
Track posture metrics like MFA adoption and dormant account cleanup
Use recommendations to drive least privilege initiatives

Key features for you:

True Privilege Graph
Identity Security Summary reports
Dormant account analysis
Contextual recommendations

Compliance and Risk Analysts

Compliance teams use Insights to generate reports, track improvements, and support audits.

What you can do:

Generate reports on privilege, posture, and identity threats
Track changes over time for audit readiness
Validate that remediation efforts are reducing risk
Export data for compliance documentation

Key features for you:

Prebuilt reports (e.g., High Risk Accounts, Identity Security Risk Assessment)
Posture improvement tracking
Exportable summaries and dashboards

Executives and Leadership

Leaders use Insights to understand identity risk at a high level and track progress on security initiatives.

What you can do:

View summaries of identity risk posture
Track progress on remediation and hygiene
Support strategic decisions with real-time data

Key features:

Insights Summary dashboard
Identity Security Risk Assessment report
Posture improvement metrics

Summary

Identity Security Insights is designed to support a wide range of roles each with a different lens on identity risk. Whether you're responding to threats, managing access, or driving governance, Insights gives you the visibility and context to take action.