Netwrix Identity Management
Identity risk management
Surface identity risks like conflicting entitlements, segregation-of-duties violations, dormant accounts, and privilege creep before they turn into breach paths.
What is identity risk management?
Identity risk management is the continuous process of finding, scoring, and reducing risk tied to identities and their access: dormant accounts, conflicting entitlements, privilege creep, and unmanaged non-human identities. Because access changes every day, it works as an ongoing cycle rather than a point-in-time audit. Netwrix Identity Manager runs that cycle across hybrid Active Directory and Entra ID.
Why Netwrix for identity risk management?
Gain continuous visibility into identity-based threats, enforce policy-based controls to prevent escalation, and reduce your attack surface with Netwrix Identity Management.
Identify hidden access risks
From dormant accounts to privilege creep and conflicting access rights, Netwrix discovers identity risks before they become breaches.
Apply policy-based controls
Define rules for segregation of duties (SoD), entitlement conflicts, inactive identities, and automatically enforce or remediate them with automated SoD enforcement.
Remediate identity risks
Automatically surface, prioritize, and act on identity risks so your security team can focus on the highest-impact issues.
Demonstrate compliance and governance
Detailed audit logs and risk-analysis reports help you prove control of identity risks to auditors, regulators, and stakeholders.
The identity risk management process
Effective programs run a repeatable cycle instead of a yearly scramble: discover identities and access across connected sources, assess and score each risk by the sensitivity of the access and the severity of any conflict, prioritize the highest-impact issues, remediate by disabling, revoking, or routing for approval through policy, and prove the result with a time-stamped record for auditors.
Features that enable identity risk management
How Netwrix compares to other approaches
Quarterly access reviews are a point-in-time snapshot, and SIEM identity analytics only watch behavior. Netwrix continuously detects risky access states and remediates them.
Manual reviews / SIEM analytics
Netwrix
Continuous detection
✗ Point-in-time, or behavior only
✓ Yes
SoD analysis
✗ Manual, or none
✓ Yes, rule engine
Non-human identities
✗ Rarely included
✓ Full coverage
Automated remediation
✗ No, alerts only
✓ Yes, policy automation
Example:
Dormant accounts reveal hidden risks
During a scheduled scan, Netwrix Identity Management detects multiple dormant user accounts that have not logged in for over three months. Several of these accounts still hold elevated privileges, creating potential entry points for attackers.
Segregation of duties conflicts identified
Further analysis uncovers a policy violation in the finance department where a user can both create and approve vendor payments. This conflicting combination breaches internal controls and introduces a fraud risk.
Automated policy enforcement remediates issues
Predefined policies automatically disable dormant accounts and revoke conflicting permissions. Notifications are sent to data owners for validation, and all corrective actions are logged for audit purposes.
Risk dashboards highlight remaining exposure
Security and compliance teams review dashboards displaying current identity risks ranked by severity. This visibility helps prioritize additional remediation and monitor the organization’s overall risk posture in real time.
Audit-ready reports confirm compliance
When auditors request evidence, IT exports detailed reports showing identified risks, remediation actions, and policy enforcement history. These records demonstrate continuous monitoring and effective governance.
Result
With Netwrix Identity Management, organizations detect and mitigate identity-related risks such as dormant accounts, privilege creep, and segregation of duties violations. Automated policy controls, real-time analytics, and detailed reporting reduce exposure, enforce least privilege, and simplify regulatory compliance.
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"Our team has had significant success in handling user account compromises and ransomware attacks using Netwrix 1Secure. Its robust monitoring and alerting capabilities allow us to detect and respond to threats swiftly, ensuring minimal disruption to our clients' operations. The comprehensive visibility and control provided by 1Secure empower us to confidently address and mitigate these security challenges, maintaining the highest level of protection for our clients."
Rory Cooksey, Director of Growth
WheelHouse IT