Detection Without Automated Response Fails: Lessons for Identity-First CTI
Brief
By Flare Product
In the mid-2010s, endpoint security reached a breaking point. Malware volume grew nearly eightfold between 2010 and 2016. Ransomware campaigns like WannaCry and NotPetya exploited the gap between detection and manual response with devastating efficiency. The industry’s answer was EDR: push automated response as close to the point of attack as possible and close the gap to zero. It worked.
According to the 2024 Microsoft Digital Defense Report , over 90% of attacks that progressed to the ransom stage now originate from unmanaged devices, the systems that fall outside the EDR shield. The lesson was clear: detection without automated response is not defense; it is observation. Identity security is now at the same inflection point.
Fifty million breached identities are traded weekly across Telegram and dark web channels.