Understanding Identity Threat Detection and Response

The report describes a large 2024 credential-driven breach in which attackers used stolen or purchased credentials—some harvested by infostealer malware—to access and exfiltrate data from at least 165 organizations’ Snowflake instances; it highlights identity-based attack vectors, explains Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR) as a mitigation approach, and recommends MFA, PAM, Active Directory hardening, and continuous identity monitoring (with Arctic Wolf referenced as a provider).