The Identity Paradox: The Hidden Risks in Your Valid Credentials

SentinelOne's report describes the “Identity Paradox”: attackers increasingly exploit legitimate human and non-human identities (employee accounts, service accounts, developer maintainers, APIs, and AI agents) to bypass controls. It highlights trends such as credential theft, AiTM phishing, supply-chain compromises (e.g., compromised maintainer workflows), and state-sponsored insider hiring, and recommends shifting from authentication-centric defenses to continuous behavioral monitoring and correlation across identities, applications, and endpoints.