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PRODUCT: EMPLOYEE ATO PREVENTION

Close the Door on Account Takeover
One Password at a Time

The sprawl of exposed workforce credentials has made account takeover inevitable – unless you’re proactive. SpyCloud continuously detects employee and contractor identity exposures from third-party breaches, malware infections, and successful phishes, providing early and actionable intelligence to prevent account takeover before attackers make their move.

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HOW IT WORKS

Know when employee credentials are exposed – and what to do next

By infiltrating criminal communities to recapture data well before it hits dark web marketplaces, we deliver exposed data tied to your workforce early – before it is operationalized by threat actors – and automated remediation to eliminate entry points to your organization.

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Detect stolen credentials

Access recaptured usernames and passwords from breaches, malware logs, and phishing kits linked to your workforce

Automate credential hygiene

Streamline password resets and policy enforcement with evidence-based alerts for exposed accounts

Feed exposure data into your identity ecosystem

Power adaptive policies in your IAM or SIEM platform with early signals of credential exposure

Integrate directly into your identity and response stack

Designed for fast-moving security teams, SpyCloud integrates into your workflows to identify and act on exposures that put your business at risk of identity-based attacks.

IAM integrations

Enrich your identity and access management systems with exposure signals for dynamic policy enforcement

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SIEM integrations

Feed exposed credentials directly into your SIEM for alerting, investigation, and correlation with other identity-based signals

SOAR integrations

Automate your account remediation workflows using SpyCloud identity data in your SOAR platform

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Protect more than logins

Safeguard identities with early exposure detection & automated remediation.

Identity Guardians

Automate the remediation of exposed workforce identities in Active Directory, Okta Workforce, or Entra ID

Compass Malware Remediation

Detect employees infected with credential-stealing malware to uncover exposures you’d otherwise miss

VIP Guardian

Safeguard your high-risk executives and privileged users from targeted attacks

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Account takeover starts with exposure – SpyCloud helps you stop it there

SpyCloud Employee Account Takeover Prevention FAQs
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SpyCloud Employee Account Takeover Prevention FAQs

In an account takeover (ATO) attack, criminals use another person’s login credentials, most often by leveraging reused or similar passwords from previously breached sites, to gain access to existing accounts. Once inside, they make unauthorized transactions, siphon funds, and steal corporate data or personally identifiable information (PII) to use for other purposes, or simply to sell to other attackers on the dark web.

Criminals typically take over accounts for profit, pure and simple. It all comes down to money, and how much of it criminals can extract from what they’ve stolen. Contrary to what you may have heard elsewhere, the first step to monetizing stolen credentials is not to sell them on the dark web. That’s actually the last step. What happens first is the highest effort, most profitable activities. When it comes to exploiting work accounts, criminals may try to locate and steal corporate IP or deploy business email compromise scams, which resulted in nearly $3B in losses each year.

SpyCloud offers seamless integrations with your SIEM, SOAR, IdP, or EDR. To view current list of available integrations or to learn more about custom integrations, visit our integrations page.

Easy-to-remember passwords are also easy for bad actors to guess, making consumers vulnerable to password spraying. Password spraying is a brute force attack where a cybercriminal uses a list of usernames and common passwords to try to gain access to a particular site. Once they get a match, they’ll test that same username and password combination against as many accounts as possible.

There are plenty of news stories about admin passwords that contain the company name. It’s actually a huge problem that we’ve come across too many times to count in analyzing the SpyCloud breach database, and something we recommend customers include on their list of banned passwords.

Credential stuffing makes it possible for criminals to profit from even very old breach data that they buy on the dark web and successfully take over multiple accounts. Credential stuffing tools let criminals test credential pairs against a number of websites to see which additional accounts they can take over; hence why password reuse is so dangerous. Some criminal tools can even test for common password variations, like changing certain letters to numbers (Password vs. P@ssw0rd) or adding numbers or symbols to the end of a word (password123). If a password has been exposed in one data breach, any other account with a variation of the same password is at risk.

Infostealer malware is a form of malicious software used by ransomware operators to slip under the radar and steal information from unsuspecting users’ devices – including credentials, auto-fill data, and OS and device info that enables impersonation without setting off any red flags. This type of malware is typically delivered through phishing emails, malicious websites, and other deceptive tactics. Popular types of infostealers we’ve observed on the darknet recently include RedLine, MetaStealer, Raccoon, and Vidar. SpyCloud detects when corporate credentials are exposed via an infostealer infection – or in a third-party breach or via a successful phish.