ManageEngine wins seven Global InfoSec Awards in 2026

Historically, identity systems were built to handle provisioning, authentication, and access control, while security operations focused on detecting and responding to threats. In more static environments, this separation worked well enough. That model, however, is starting to break down in today’s threat landscape.

In modern enterprises, identity has become the control plane for attacks. Compromised credentials are no longer just an access issue. They are the starting point for lateral movement, privilege escalation, and data exfiltration. Treating identity governance and threat detection as disconnected functions creates blind spots that attackers actively exploit.

What is changing now is not just the scale or sophistication of threats, but the expectation that these systems operate with shared context. Identity signals need to inform detection. Threat intelligence needs to influence access decisions in real time. Organizations that continue to manage them in isolation have a higher chance of being exposed.

ManageEngine is proud to announce that it recognized at the 14th Annual Global InfoSec Awards by Cyber Defense Magazine across seven categories spanning identity and threat detection:

  • Market Innovator: Identity & Access Management (IAM)

  • Market Innovator: Identity Security

  • Market Innovator: Identity Security Posture Management (ISPM)

  • Market Innovator: Cloud Security

  • Market Innovator: Next-gen SIEM

  • Market Innovator: Cloud Threat Detection, Investigation, and Response (TDIR)

  • Market Innovator: Threat Detection, Incident Response, Hunting and Triage Platform

Cyber Defense Magazine evaluated over 3,000 cybersecurity vendors across a six-month assessment process, recognizing only those delivering solutions to the security challenges organizations are actively facing today.

ManageEngine AD360: A converged platform for identity security

The complexity of modern identity environments is not just a management problem. It is a security one. When identity governance, access management, and threat detection are handled by separate tools, each operates on incomplete information. Access certifications don't reflect behavioral risk. Authentication policies don't adjust for privilege levels. Anomalies surface too late to prevent lateral movement.

AD360 takes a converged approach, bringing identity life cycle management, adaptive access controls, continuous risk assessment, and governance into a single platform that operates across on-premises and cloud directories. The Risk Exposure Management capability maps privilege inheritance chains and potential lateral movement paths so security teams can evaluate exposure from an attacker's perspective, not just an administrative one.

The Attack Surface Analyzer surfaces over 25 commonly exploited Active Directory techniques and misconfigurations before they become incidents. Zia, ManageEngine's native AI engine, identifies privilege outliers, anomalous group memberships, and access deviations that periodic reviews routinely miss.

ManageEngine Log360: Reducing the burden on SOC teams

The expectation placed on security operations teams has outpaced the tools they've been given. Investigating thousands of daily alerts, most of which are low-priority or false positives, is not security work. It is triage overhead, and it crowds out the analysis that actually matters.

Log360 is built to change that ratio. Its TDIR engine, Vigil IQ, delivers over 1,500 prebuilt detection rules mapped to MITRE ATT&CK® and SIGMA, paired with ML-powered adaptive thresholds that adjust alert conditions based on actual behavior patterns in the environment. Object-level filtering applies detection logic to what warrants attention and excludes known benign activity at the source. The result is not simply fewer alerts. It is better ones, with enough context for analysts to act immediately rather than investigate first.

UEBA, built-in CASB for cloud application visibility, integrated DLP, and dark web monitoring via Constella Intelligence all feed into the same detection layer. When a threshold is crossed, SOAR playbooks execute containment directly from the incident view. Zia Insights generates AI-assisted summaries and MITRE-mapped attack timelines, so analysts are working from structured context rather than raw log data.

Two products, one closed loop

Organizations that close the loop between identity governance and threat detection respond faster and more accurately than those running disconnected tools.

AD360 and Log360 are products built within the same ecosystem. Identity events from AD360 feed directly into Log360's analytics. SOC teams can act on identity controls without leaving the SIEM console.

Explore how AD360 and Log360 address identity security and threat detection in your environment.