Demo
Demo
Identity Governance Product Briefs

How IGA Protects Your Organization Before, During & After a Ransomware Attack

Contents

91% of organizations suffered an identity-related incident in the past year (SpyCloud). The average ransomware breach now costs $5.08M (IBM 2025). Third-party involvement in breaches doubled in a single year, from 15% to 30% (Verizon DBIR 2025). And 43% of organizations say overprovisioning and privilege creep are their most pressing identity risks (EMA 2026).

When the next identity-based attack hits, can you contain it without shutting down the business? With the right identity governance, you control that answer.

Get the full picture at a glance

Download the infographic to get a clear, visual overview of how identity governance helps you prevent, contain, and recover from ransomware attacks—before, during, and after they happen.

Download infographic

BEFORE: Shrink the Attack Surface

Ungoverned identities give attackers a highway through the enterprise.

  1. Enforce least privilege; eliminate privilege creep
  2. Detect toxic access combinations (SoD violations)
  3. Automate Joiner-Mover-Leaver lifecycle management
  4. Govern non-human identities (AI agents, APIs, service accounts)
  5. Surface high-risk identities through continuous analytics

Outcome: Smaller attack surface, smaller blast radius.

 

DURING: Surgical Containment Without Full Shutdown

When you can’t answer “what can this identity reach?”, containment defaults to total shutdown.

  1. Map blast radius across hybrid environments
  2. Prioritize action using real-time identity risk signals
  3. Feed identity context into security and response tools (SIEM/SOAR/SDR)
  4. Trigger governed revocation across connected systems
  5. Isolate compromised access without halting operations

Outcome: Attackers boxed in, operations preserved.

 

AFTER: Investigate, Clean Up, Strengthen

Recovery without identity governance rebuilds the conditions attackers exploited.

  1. Reconstruct what happened with forensic audit trails
  2. Remove emergency and excessive permissions
  3. Identify which governance failures enabled the attack
  4. Update policies, roles, and workflows to prevent repeat paths
  5. Harden controls to prevent recurrence

Outcome: Clean recovery and lower recurrence risk.

WEBINAR: How IGA Protects You Before, During & After a Cyber Attack

We walk through how IGA shrinks your identity attack surface to prevent a breach, enables rapid containment during an active incident, and delivers the forensic intelligence needed for clean recovery and hardening.

https://omadaidentity.com/webinars/iga-protects-before-during-after-cyber-attack/

The Omada Advantage

Organizations with comprehensive identity governance know their identity attack surface before attackers find it, respond in hours with surgical precision instead of weeks with full shutdowns, recover faster with complete forensics and clear lessons learned, and strengthen continuously, closing gaps before thenext attempt.

Be Ready. Be Resilient. Be Secure with Omada Identity Governance.

FEATURED RESOURCES

Identity Governance Blog

Before a Ransomware Attack: How IGA Shrinks Your Identity Attack Surface

The most damaging ransomware attacks of 2025 shared a common thread: attackers didn’t exploit sophisticated vulnerabilities but instead used stolen credentials and ungoverned identities to walk through the front door.

Learn more
Identity Governance Blog

During a Ransomware Attack: How IGA Enables Rapid Containment

In this blog, we explain how important containment speed is when ransomware strikes, and how it determines whether your organization will experience either a six-hour incident or a six-week shutdown.

Learn more
Identity Governance Blog

After a Ransomware Attack: How IGA Enables Clean Recovery and Post-Incident Hardening

This blog explains how identity governance transforms recovery from a blind rebuild into a process that prevents recurrence.

Learn more

Let's Get
Started

Let us show you how Omada can enable your business.

Book a Demo