Inside the Modern SOC: The Identity Front Door

Unit 42 warns that identity-based attacks have become the primary attack surface, with attackers increasingly using phishing, MFA manipulation, social engineering and compromised third-party accounts to gain access, then establishing persistence, escalating privileges and moving laterally to enable ransomware, data theft or fraud; the report emphasizes correlating identity context across telemetry, reducing manual investigation, continuous detection tuning and proactive threat hunting to detect and contain such compromises earlier.