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title: "Identity: The Third Phase of Security Operations"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/identity-the-third-phase-of-security-operations-vyalzpqlh
source_url: https://www.huntress.com/blog/identity-the-third-phase-of-security-operations
type: article
source: "Huntress Blog"
published: 2026-05-31T07:43:23.724Z
updated: 2026-05-31T08:08:58.823Z
tags: ["security", "authentication"]
reading_time: 6
upvotes: 0
comments: 0
language: en
---

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# Identity: The Third Phase of Security Operations

**[Huntress Blog](https://daily.dev/sources/huntress-blog)** · 6 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

Identity security has emerged as a distinct third discipline in information security, alongside traditional host-based and network-focused approaches. The shift is driven by cloud migration and adversary behavior — from state-sponsored actors like Storm-0558 compromising Microsoft's cloud signing keys to financially motivated business email compromise (BEC) schemes costing over $2 billion in 2022. As organizations move critical infrastructure to third-party providers, they lose direct visibility into identity-related threats. Defenders must adapt by demanding greater monitoring access from providers, ingesting available telemetry from cloud tenants, and treating identity as a primary security domain rather than a subset of host or network security.

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