NOMINATION HIGHLIGHTS

Identity has become the primary control layer across hybrid environments. When an organization’s environment is fragmented, posture weaknesses accumulate silently. Excessive privileges, dormant accounts, misconfigured delegations, and entitlement sprawl create exploitable paths that traditional IAM that used to focus on provisioning and authentication of identities cannot address.

AD360 provides comprehensive identity visibility with 200+ purpose-built reports covering users, access rights, privileges, group memberships, and configuration changes. Real-time audit trails track logons and privilege modifications, while inventory views highlight stale accounts, nested groups, and shadow admin access, eliminating critical blind spots.

This visibility is transformed into actionable attack surface intelligence with the Attack Surface Analyzer, which surfaces over 25 common attack techniques and highlights privilege escalation risks, insecure delegations, and system misconfigurations across domain controllers, servers, and endpoints.

At the intelligence layer, Zia, ManageEngine’s in-house AI, delivers peer comparison analysis, high-risk group membership detection, and access pattern recognition. These capabilities enable administrators to identify privilege outliers, toxic access combinations, and abnormal behavior patterns that increase exposure.

The risk exposure management capability maps object relationships, privilege chains, and potential lateral movement paths. By visualizing how attackers could escalate privileges and move laterally toward critical assets, security teams assess identity risk from an attacker’s perspective.

Identity risk assessment continuously evaluates users based on privilege levels, access patterns, and behavioral anomalies, assigning contextual risk scores that inform governance decisions. User behavior analytics capabilities provide deep visibility into how identities interact by analyzing login patterns, remote desktop activity, and failed authentication attempts to establish behavioral baselines.

AD360 enforces Zero Trust with adaptive MFA across RDP, Citrix Gateway, VMware Horizon, Outlook Web Access, VPNs, and RADIUS-enabled systems, with offline MFA for uninterrupted protection.

It supports 20+ authentication methods, including FIDO2, biometrics, hardware and software tokens, push notifications, OTP, and smart cards, with access decisions evaluated using context such as geolocation, IP address, device state, group membership, and risk level to enforce strong, risk-based authentication.

AD360 also strengthens identity hygiene by automating offboarding through orchestration templates, ensuring secure and consistent user deprovisioning in just a few steps. This structured approach has delivered results in complex environments.

For example:

– Inter IKEA Group improved visibility into privileged changes across a distributed directory landscape.

– Dairygold enforced customizable MFA across all Windows devices, laptops, and servers, while significantly reducing password-related support tickets through self-service password reset and account unlock capabilities, saving the IT team countless hours each week.