"Safeguarding identities is foundational to enterprise security." — tenfold Software
That declarative opening frames a basic claim: as organizations expand cloud footprints and entangle more external accounts, identity controls must move beyond periodic reviews and static role definitions to continuous, real-time awareness. The sponsored piece from tenfold Software argues the way to that awareness is a single platform that combines identity governance with event-level telemetry so security teams can spot and act on active compromises the moment they begin.
Why role-based governance is necessary but not sufficient
The source describes Identity Governance as the traditional starting point — role-based access, lifecycle automation and periodic access reviews that ensure user privileges remain business-appropriate. Tenfold’s piece calls these governance tools “essential” for reducing identity risk and streamlining IT administration, but it also warns that governance alone is fundamentally passive: policies establish boundaries, but “policies won’t help you stop breaches unless you know when they are being broken.” The proposed remedy is continuous, real-time monitoring for identity events so investigations can begin while a suspicious activity is still unfolding.
How tenfold’s real-time event auditing is presented to work
Tenfold’s event auditing capability is described in concrete technical terms. The platform "ingests event logs in real time," records chosen event types in its own database and enriches them with context — for example, by looking up session IDs to identify the user behind a change. Multi-step operations such as creating and renaming a security group are consolidated into a single entry, reducing noise. Built-in search tools let users create, save and share queries to surface patterns like all login events on privileged accounts or recent password reset requests, while a central, unified log is emphasized as the means to make suspicious activity easier to investigate.
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Tenfold frames its no-code IGA offering as a single-platform approach that pairs "comprehensive governance with real-time event auditing." The same interface that runs onboarding workflows and access reviews also provides audit visibility into identity events, and teams are said to be able to pull up an access report for any account in seconds. The product workflow highlights the ability to change an account’s lifecycle phase to temporarily lock down accounts while investigations proceed. Tenfold positions this integration as a way to avoid fractured toolchains that "slow down your response when minutes matter most."
Current scope and planned capabilities
The piece specifies current and future coverage: event monitoring "currently extends to Windows and Active Directory events." It also states that "Support for Entra ID and automated alerting will be added in upcoming releases." Additionally, the event auditing feature is said to be included in all tenfold editions "with no added costs," and the vendor offers a personal demo to prospective customers.
What this means for technologists, procurement leaders, and adversaries
- Technologists and security teams: will be asked to evaluate whether a unified log and session-aware, consolidated events reduce investigation time, and whether the no-code workflows replace custom scripting for onboarding and incident containment.
- Procurement leaders and affected enterprises: can weigh the claim that event auditing is included across tenfold editions with no added cost, and consider upcoming Entra ID and automated alerting support when planning future integrations.
- Adversaries and threat actors: are cast implicitly as the driving pressure — the piece argues attackers “don’t play by the rules,” and that real-time telemetry is necessary to spot when policies are being violated rather than simply enforced.
Tenfold’s case is straightforward: keep the governance rules, but instrument identity activity so teams know — in real time — when those rules are breached. The vendor positions a single, no-code platform as the bridge between setting access boundaries and detecting their violation, with current coverage for Windows and Active Directory and planned expansion to Entra ID and automated alerts. For organizations weighing identity controls, the immediate decisions are practical: can a unified log and session-aware context materially shorten investigations, and will upcoming integrations match the environments they must defend?
