Security threats have fundamentally changed, but many security stacks have not.
Today’s attacks rarely rely on noisy malware or perimeter breaches. Instead, attackers exploit identities, abuse legitimate credentials, and move laterally across hybrid environments that span on-premises Active Directory, cloud identity, and data platforms. Legacy security tools, built for static, perimeter-based threats, struggle to detect these behaviours—creating blind spots, alert fatigue, and delayed response when it matters most.
The Problem with Legacy and Siloed Security Products
Legacy and siloed security products were never designed for today’s hybrid, identity-centric environments. Most operate in isolation, generating large volumes of low-value alerts without the context needed to understand real risk. Instead of improving visibility, these disconnected tools fragment it—forcing security teams to jump between consoles, manually correlate events, and piece together incidents after damage has already occurred.
At the same time, many traditional solutions rely on heavyweight agents and static rules that strain infrastructure and struggle to detect modern attack techniques. Approaches that worked in perimeter-based environments break down when attackers abuse legitimate identities, permissions, and trusted access paths across Active Directory, cloud services, and data platforms.
Siloed Security Breaks Visibility
When an organization uses different, non-integrated software systems or platforms for its various departments, it results in information fragmentation. This means that the organization does not have a unified, holistic view of its operations, data, and performance.
Separate AD, file, M365, and identity tools that are running in isolation create blind spots, where attackers can move undetected from on-premises privileges to cloud resources. There isn’t a single version of the truth that analysts can focus on, and thus they spend hours correlating disjointed events across different consoles.
Such fragmentation obscures the evidence of lateral movements in ransomware chains that exploit unmonitored AD, to, Entra ID Paths.
Alert Fatigue Is Becoming Unmanageable
Alert fatigue is a term that describes a situation where an individual becomes desensitized / numb to alerts because of their large number, and as a result, usually threats are ignored, and the person may experience burnout. In cybersecurity operations, it is becoming more manageable due to recent developments of AI, driven tools and prioritization strategies.
Alert fatigue has reached a breaking point in many security operations centres (SOCs), where teams are forced to process thousands of low-value alerts every day. Legacy tools significantly worsen the problem by generating unfiltered noise through static rules, with little or no risk scoring based on asset criticality or threat intelligence. As a result, analysts are left manually triaging redundant signals across siloed endpoint, network, and cloud tools.
While modern, AI-driven solutions promise intelligent prioritisation and automation, the day-to-day reality for most SOCs remains overwhelming—exposing organisations to greater risk as critical threats are delayed or overlooked.
Lack of Focus and Prioritization
The lack of focus and prioritisation in many cybersecurity tools stems from their reliance on raw “events” rather than actionable risk. SOC teams are flooded with low-level logs and anomaly alerts that lack context around asset value, attacker intent, or business impact. As a result, minor issues are treated with the same urgency as genuine threats, forcing analysts to wade through noise instead of taking decisive action.
Without even basic risk-based filtering, false positives dominate alert feeds, obscuring the critical signals hidden within endpoint and cloud data. Time is lost manually correlating unprioritised events across tools and chasing false leads, delaying response by days and significantly increasing the likelihood and impact of breaches.
Complexity Slows Down Response
Operational complexity significantly slows incident response, as security teams are forced to operate across multiple disconnected consoles without automated correlation of logs, alerts, and events. This fragmentation pushes mean time to response (MTTR) from minutes into hours. At the same time, MITRE ATT&CK evaluations show that attackers can execute lateral movement and data exfiltration rapidly—often well before legacy tools, dependent on rigid rules and siloed workflows, enable full incident resolution.
This imbalance creates a critical velocity gap. Modern attacks such as ransomware deployment and credential dumping unfold in minutes, while defenders remain constrained by manual workflows, hourly reporting cycles, and tools that lack API-driven orchestration. As a result, attackers consistently outpace response efforts, exploiting delays that turn containable incidents into full-scale breaches.
No Context = No Action
When logs and alerts lack context, SOC teams are left effectively blind. Analysts are forced into time-consuming manual investigations, delaying response and increasing risk. Without clear insight into who initiated a change, what was altered, when it occurred, and why it matters, teams must hunt for information across multiple systems—preventing decisive action.
Alerts generated from raw Active Directory, endpoint, and cloud logs often arrive without identity, intent, or impact scoring. As a result, analysts are forced to switch between tools and make educated guesses, while critical data remains siloed across legacy SIEMs and EDRs. This fragmentation drives MTTR from minutes to days and leaves teams unable to quickly answer fundamental questions such as “Who changed administrative privileges?” or “Why did file access spike at 3 a.m.?”
Noise Drowns Out Real Threats
Excessive alert noise drowns out real threats by flooding security operations centres (SOCs) with thousands of alerts each day, many of them false positives. Over time, this volume desensitises analysts, leading to skipped investigations, delayed responses, and attackers operating undetected within the environment.
Threat actors actively exploit this condition by running low-and-slow campaigns designed to blend into the noise. Subtle indicators of compromise—such as anomalous logins or minor data exfiltration—are easily overlooked when teams are overwhelmed, allowing attackers to persist and escalate without detection.
Spiralling Costs with Limited Value
Spiralling costs are one of the most persistent challenges in modern cybersecurity and IT operations. As organisations accumulate fragmented security tools, expenses rise while overall effectiveness declines. Adding more solutions does not necessarily improve security—in many cases, it increases inefficiency, complexity, and operational overhead.
Most security teams rely on multiple platforms for threat detection, identity management, compliance reporting, and endpoint protection. In practice, these tools often duplicate functionality—for example, several systems independently scanning Active Directory for suspicious activity—creating redundancy across the stack. This sprawl demands significant infrastructure, including on-premises servers, cloud resources, and integrations that consume bandwidth and storage.
Compliance requirements further amplify the problem. Standards such as GDPR, HIPAA, and emerging 2026 regulations, including updates to India’s DPDP framework, require detailed audits and reporting. With disparate tools, generating these reports becomes a manual, time-consuming process, forcing teams to export, correlate, and format data across systems—driving costs higher while delivering limited additional value.
What Today’s Threats Require
Modern cybersecurity threats in 2025 ransomware, insider risks, and AI driven attacks require proactive, integrated defences that can outpace fragmented toolsets. Legacy approaches are no longer enough to counter sophisticated actors who are targeting Active Directory (AD), Entra ID, file systems, and M365.
Organizations are compelled to acquire solutions which not only ensure comprehensive visibility but also instant insights and streamlined operations.
- Unified Visibility: Threats take advantage of hybrid environments to move laterally from on premises, AD to cloud, Based Entra ID and M365. Siloed tools have the disadvantage of creating blind spots which may be for example escalations of privileges in file shares that remain undetected or anomalous logins across platforms. Lepide provides unified visibility through its real time auditing of changes, access events, and behaviors across these ecosystems. The analysts get one view that lets them see the changes of the AD group correlated with M365 SharePoint activity without the need of using various dashboards and hence the mean time to detect (MTTD) can be reduced.
- Real-Time Detection: The attackers of today are employing low and slow tactics which signature based alerts can rarely catch. False positives are common, and therefore the response is delayed. Lepide’s AI enabled detection enables SOC teams to get real time threat detection and response will full context and clarity, eliminating alert fatigue.
- Automation: Manual investigation and remediation do not scale in modern SOCs—especially as compliance requirements such as India’s DPDP updates increase operational pressure. When every alert requires human validation and response, analyst time is consumed by repetitive tasks, response is delayed, and risk accumulates.
Lepide addresses this by enabling automated, policy-driven remediation directly across Active Directory, file systems, and cloud environments. Security teams can automatically reverse unauthorized AD changes, restrict or revoke risky access, and contain abnormal activity as it occurs—without waiting for manual intervention. These actions are executed with full context and audit trails, ensuring that remediation not only reduces mean time to respond (MTTR) but also generates compliance-ready evidence by default.
- Lightweight Deployment: IT is weighed down by the heavy traditional tool sprawl and infrastructure that are the reason deployments are long and less than ideal cost situations. Lepide is the solution, its design can be easily implemented without using any resources because it only requires one installer; it is highly scalable and requires less maintenance when custom integrations are not required. The value is instantly unlocked by organizations with pre, built reports for GDPR, HIPAA, or DPDP, all costing only a small fraction of the total cost of ownership (TCO) thus resulting in a transformation of the SOC to the lean powerful units which are resilient to threats and are ready for the challenges would bring.
Why Consolidation Is the Future of Security
According to Research analysts, cybersecurity platformization is expected to be the next big thing, where companies merge the fragmented tools they have into unified platforms to handle scrawls and strengthen their security. This trend is getting faster due to AI, driven threats and identity attacks, and leaders are choosing to optimize their stacks instead of expanding them without limits.
Benefits of a Consolidated DSP/ Identity, centric Security Slack
- It brings together the auditing, detection, and response operations of AD, Entra ID, file systems, and M365, thus giving up the idea of the different tools for each one and creating a centralized policy management and visibility tool.
- It reduces the complexity, as it is possible now to quickly enforce policies and monitor behavior from one interface, thus greatly lowering misconfigurations and speeding up incident response.
- Identity centric stacks, as Forrester put it, are the ones that involve the integration of IAM, PAM, IGA, and ITDR to implement zero standing privileges and continuous access evaluation, thus reducing the attack surfaces while at the same time bringing the security and compliance together.
- Teams will be able to have better control over the data access, automated remediation, and audit- ready insights that will give them the strength to be agile against the threats in future.
Why Lepide is the Security Platform for the Future
The Lepide Data Security Platform delivers unified visibility across Active Directory, Entra ID, file systems, and Microsoft 365—eliminating blind spots across hybrid environments. By correlating identity, access, and activity data in real time, security teams can surface hidden risks and reduce time to detection from days to minutes. Context-rich alerts highlight genuine threats, such as abnormal privilege escalation, while noise reduction and prioritisation significantly cut false positives and analyst fatigue.
Lepide further accelerates response through risk-based remediation actions, including session revocation, access restriction, and rollback of unauthorised changes. Automated, audit-ready reporting for GDPR, HIPAA, and DPDP reduces compliance overhead and makes regulatory evidence a by-product of day-to-day security operations. With a lightweight deployment model that avoids heavy agents and complex infrastructure, Lepide can be deployed quickly and scaled efficiently—without adding operational burden.
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