UEBA vs. Stealth Intrusions: Catching Identity & Credential Abuse

This article argues that modern intrusions increasingly leverage valid credentials and legitimate cloud/SaaS tooling to blend in, and shows five practitioner cases—valid-account lateral movement, MFA fatigue, OAuth/app abuse, cloud admin misuse, and insider-style data exfiltration—where UEBA (behavioral analytics) outperforms simple IOC/rule-based detection by correlating identity, endpoint, API, and data access signals to surface anomalous stories for SOC analysts.