Company Performance Metrics
- Wes Mullins: Founder & CEO
Icite unifies identity visibility, security posture management, threat detection, and response into a single platform — replacing the patchwork of SIEM queries, posture scanners, ITDR point products, and IGA tools that security and identity teams stitch together today.
Identity is the new perimeter, but the tools built to protect it were designed
for different problems.
**SIEMs were not built for identity.** Legacy SIEM's ingest billions of events but have no identity context layer. They cannot answer "who has access to what?" because they lack the relational config data — user records, group memberships, app assignments, MFA status, account state. A SIEM can tell you an IP logged in; it cannot tell you that the user behind that IP is an over-privileged admin with MFA disabled who was added to 3 new groups last week across two identity providers.
**Posture tools lack real-time event data.** ISPM vendors assess identity configurations i.e stale accounts, MFA gaps, privilege sprawl, but operate on periodic snapshots. They cannot correlate a posture finding with the authentication event that exploited it. When they flag "admin with no MFA," they cannot show you that admin's login history, geo-locations, or failed auth attempts because they do not ingest event streams.
**ITDR vendors lack posture and config data.** Popular ITDR bolt-ons detect threats in real time, impossible travel, privilege escalation, brute force, but they operate on authentication events alone. They cannot tell you the blast radius of a compromised identity because they lack the relational data: what groups is this user in? What applications do those groups grant access to? What changed in their entitlements last month? ITDR sees the attack; it does not see the attack surface.
**IGA platforms are governance-first, not security-first.** They excel at access reviews, certifications, and lifecycle automation. But they are batch-oriented compliance tools, not real-time security platforms. An access review cycle runs quarterly; an identity attack unfolds in minutes.
**The result:** Security teams juggle 4-6 tools, none of which have the complete picture. SOC analysts chase alerts without identity context. Identity teams run access reviews without threat data. Nobody can answer the fundamental question: "For this identity, across every provider, what do they have access to, what have they been doing, and has anything changed?"
Icite answers that question.
