In most organizations, critical servers and data stores are closely protected by Zero Trust security controls which grant access to these resources only to a select few accounts. Advanced cyber attackers often use Privilege Escalation techniques to bypass these preventive measures to access resources and perform exfiltration.
In this paper, we discuss how SEQRITE HawkkHunt XDR uses AI/ML to discover these privilege escalation paths and interact with Zero Trust technologies to lock them down before an attacker penetrates the environment.