Beyond MFA: Securing The Human Element With Identity Threat Detection
SC Media, Friday, January 16th, 2026
In a recent webcast hosted by Enterprise Security Weekly host Adrian Sanabria and sponsored by ID Dataweb, Sanabria spoke with Dr. Torsten George, Cybersecurity Evangelist at ID Dataweb, about why identity threat detection has become critical - and why any form of multifactor authentication (MFA), once considered a near-silver bullet, is no longer enough.
Just 18 months ago, George said, MFA was still highly effective, with bypass rates below 1%. Today, he said, those rates have climbed into double digits as attackers refine their tactics.
"It's crucial to understand attackers increasingly log in rather than break in," he said. "The old vision of a legion of people sitting in a room and trying to hack in, that's a picture of the past that that no longer happens."
Instead of exploiting software vulnerabilities directly, he added, adversaries focus on stealing or abusing credentials and trusted sessions to move laterally and escalate privileges.