Privilege Escalation
Brief
Detect, Investigate and Respond to Privilege Escalation Attacks
Privilege escalation happens when an attacker gains elevated permissions or unauthorized access to privileged accounts or systems. This can involve using valid credentials that appear legitimate, switching into accounts with greater access, exploiting vulnerabilities to increase permissions, or running tools that enumerate credentials or escalate privileges.
The New-Scale Security Operations Platform helps security teams find and stop privilege escalation attempts. The platform uses behavioral analytics, automated investigations, and guided response actions across the entire workflow.
Key capabilities include:
- Baselining activity across users, devices, remote access, endpoints, PAM activity, agent behavior, and AI usage
- Detecting anomalous behavior such as credential switching, unusual process execution, and suspicious host access
- Building a complete attack story through automated timelines
- Recommending next steps to help analysts quickly decide what to do
- Automating response with playbooks that contain compromised accounts and reduce time to remediate
Download the brief to learn how to identify privilege escalation in minutes and respond before attackers gain deeper access.
