Permiso Identity Security Platform vs Whiteswan Active Directory ITDR & Protection

Permiso Identity Security Platform is a web-based enterprise service for securing human, non-human, and AI identities across cloud, SaaS, and on-premises environments. Its Universal Identity Graph links identities with credentials, machines, agents, and actions in real time. Permiso Discover inventories enterprise identities to help assess risk and strengthen the attack surface. Posture management evaluates usage patterns, exposure, and entitlements, surfacing high-risk identities, stale access, and toxic permission combinations. Permiso Defend monitors runtime and control-plane activity for anomalous behavior, lateral movement, and early compromise indicators. The company says its P0 Labs team has developed more than 1,500 detection signals. The platform tracks activity across cloud environments, SaaS applications, and CI/CD pipelines; for AI agents it tracks tool calls, MCP invocations, and authentication handoffs. Listed integrations include Okta, AWS, Microsoft, GitHub, Slack, Salesforce, OpenAI, and Anthropic. Permiso says control-plane data is encrypted at rest and in transit. The site states that Permiso Security has joined Okta. Pricing is available by request.

Whiteswan Active Directory ITDR & Protection is paid software for monitoring and enforcing on-premises identity activity after authentication. Lightweight endpoint agents for Windows and Linux evaluate activity inline against Whiteswan’s policy engine. Listed threats include DCSync, Pass-the-Ticket, Golden Ticket creation, unauthorized LDAP queries, and lateral movement. The platform discovers and maps on-premises service accounts, governs them through policy, and places Active Directory activity in the same decision engine and unified audit trail as other identity surfaces. Whiteswan says deployment requires no changes to the Active Directory schema, forest trusts, or domain controller configuration. It works alongside identity infrastructure including Okta, Microsoft, and AWS. Policy decisions, audit logs, and credentials are encrypted in transit and at rest, with keys managed separately from protected data. Whiteswan says its controls are designed and internally tested against SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 criteria, while clarifying these are not independent certifications. Pricing is on request, and the vendor invites organizations to scope a pilot.