LinkShadow ITDR
Watch the identities you own. Attackers log in rather than break in — LinkShadow ITDR detects identity attacks on the IAM, PAM and SSO you already run. It sits beside your identity provider — never instead of one. Honest: check what you already own first.
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The LinkShadow platform family
This page covers ITDR — the identity module. The rest of the platform:
Quick facts
30-second orientation- Product
- ITDR — a CyberMeshX platform module
- What it does
- Detects identity attacks and privilege misuse
- What it is NOT
- Not an identity provider — no SSO, no MFA
- Sits
- Beside Okta or Entra, never instead of one
- Best case
- Alongside LinkShadow NDR — correlated signal
- Duplication risk
- Entra ID Protection, CrowdStrike, Silverfort
- Analyst recognition
- None for this module — the MQ is for NDR
- India residency
- Not offered — policy allows storage anywhere
- Pricing
- Quote-only — no published price
Understand identity threat detection before you buy it
Most product pages skip this. We start here — so you buy a capability, not a buzzword.
What is LinkShadow ITDR?
Detection across the identities you already run — behavioural analytics on your IAM, PAM and SSO to surface credential misuse, privilege escalation and identity-based attacks. It detects; it does not authenticate.
An unwatched identity estate vs behavioural detection — the honest table
What consolidation actually replaces, dimension by dimension.
| Dimension | Identities nobody is watching | ITDR (LinkShadow) |
|---|---|---|
| What it does | Authenticates and authorises | Detects misuse of those identities |
| Where it sits | In the login path | Beside your IdP, watching it |
| Enforcement | Blocks, steps up, disables | Raises a finding; your IdP acts |
| Overlap risk | One identity provider | May duplicate Entra ID Protection or CrowdStrike |
| The real edge | Identity signal alone | Identity correlated with network traffic |
| Analyst standing | Specialists evaluated in this space | None for this module — the MQ is for NDR |
ITDR detects; it does not authenticate. It sits beside Okta or Entra, never instead of one — and the 2026 Gartner Visionaries placement is for LinkShadow's NDR, not this module.
The five pieces of the platform
Vendors love diagrams; buyers need to know what they’re actually operating. Here’s the whole platform, demystified.
It reads your identity systems
Integrates with your existing IAM, PAM and SSO rather than replacing them, so first check it reads the systems in your estate.
Behavioural detection on identities
Models learn each account’s normal sign-in location, reach, hours and privilege, then flag deviation, after a baseline period.
It detects; your IdP enforces
It raises findings; blocking, re-authentication and disabling accounts happen in your identity provider, so wire that path first.
Correlation with network signal
Its strongest case: the same anomalous identity, on a beaconing host, reaching something new. That needs more than one module.
Service and machine identities
Service accounts, API credentials and machine identities often outnumber humans; ask how it baselines these non-human identities.
One behavioural baseline for every account in your IAM, PAM and SSO — anomalies raised with network context; your IdP enforces.
Six capabilities. Baseline, detect, correlate.
LinkShadow ITDR watches the identities you already run — behavioural detection layered on the LinkShadow portfolio.
Read the identity systems you run
Reads your existing IAM, PAM and SSO. Check coverage of your systems; it has no view of a directory it cannot see.
Learn how each identity normally behaves
Baselines sign-in location, reach, hours and privilege per account; deviation is the signal, after a tuning period.
Catch rights that grow unexpectedly
Sudden privilege changes, sensitive-group additions and interactive service accounts sit directly on attack paths.
Spot use that does not match the owner
Impossible travel, unusual clients or locations and out-of-pattern access, which Entra ID Protection or CrowdStrike may already flag.
Detection here, enforcement there
Blocking, re-authentication and disabling happen in your identity provider; wire that response path during deployment.
Read identity risk beside traffic behaviour
The same account, on a beaconing host, reaching something new: a compound detection with LinkShadow NDR that needs both modules.
Watch LinkShadow ITDR explained
The identity module explained, and the platform argument behind it.
Why ITDR is Essential — Visibility Across All Identities
The identity-detection module and what it covers.
From Security Silos to Unified Cyber Intelligence
The CyberMeshX consolidation argument.
Why Cybersecurity Needs to Move Beyond Point Solutions
The case against tool sprawl, from the vendor.
LinkShadow Corporate Video 2026
The company and the platform, in its own words.
Want a live, India-context walkthrough for your environment?
Book a guided demo →Your IdP authenticates them. ITDR watches what they do.
Here’s the honest case for this module — and why to audit what you already own first.
Detection, not authentication — get this right first
LinkShadow ITDR is not an identity provider: it issues no credentials, enforces no multi-factor authentication and replaces nothing. It reads your IAM, PAM and SSO and applies behavioural analytics to spot identity attacks, beside Okta or Microsoft Entra. Compare it with Entra ID Protection, CrowdStrike Identity Protection and Silverfort.
Where it earns its place: correlated with network signal
An anomalous account is a moderate finding; so is a host beaconing outbound. The same account, on that host, reaching a resource it has never touched is a high-confidence detection of an attack in progress, and only LinkShadow’s ITDR and NDR in one console produce it. Bought alone, ITDR is just a console.
Check what you already own before you buy this
Entra ID Protection, CrowdStrike Identity Protection and Silverfort may already cover much of what LinkShadow ITDR detects, and paying twice is a poor outcome. The real test is what it detects that your existing tools do not, on your estate, and TechBag would rather run that comparison before a purchase order.
No analyst recognition, no pricing, no residency
There is no independent analyst evaluation of LinkShadow ITDR; its 2026 Gartner Visionaries placement covers NDR only. It publishes no pricing; aggregator prices are not vendor-published. And there is no India data residency or DPDP Act, RBI, SEBI, IRDAI or CERT-In claim, so get contractually what identity telemetry leaves the country.
The numbers behind the platform
What your LinkShadow ITDR evaluation looks like
Establish what this is — and is not
Make clear to everyone that ITDR detects but does not authenticate; it sits beside your identity provider, not in place of it.
Audit what you already own
Entra ID Protection, CrowdStrike Identity Protection and Silverfort overlap with this; TechBag maps the overlap before a PoC.
Check integration against YOUR identity stack
Which IAM, PAM and SSO systems does it read, and how well? Coverage gaps in a detection tool are invisible.
Wire the response path
Decide who blocks, steps up authentication or disables accounts, and how fast, during deployment, not after a real detection.
Test the correlation claim
If you run LinkShadow NDR, validate that combined identity and network detection fires on a scenario neither catches alone.
Re-check overlap at renewal
Identity platforms keep adding detections, so revisit the overlap at each renewal rather than assuming it holds.
The review scoreboard
Modelled on Gartner Peer Insights structure. *Counts and breakdowns are illustrative pending verified review collection.
Quick poll — what’s driving your evaluation?
Talk to an advisor“The correlation is the product: the same account on a beaconing host is what got us out of bed, and it needs their NDR too.”
“Solid detections once baselined, but roughly half duplicated our existing Entra risk detections. Check your overlap.”
“Be clear internally that this is not an identity provider; two of our evaluators assumed it replaced part of our SSO.”
“We already ran Silverfort and could not justify the overlap. TechBag flagged that in the first call rather than letting us discover it in the PoC.”
Where everyone sits — the grids
Analyst firms bury this view behind paywalls, and review-site grids score satisfaction, not fit for your estate. So here’s TechBag’s synthesis of the identity threat detection market — tap any vendor to see why it sits where it does.
TechBag ITDR Grid
Execution strength vs product vision — the classic market map, minus the paywall.
Thinnest module; strongest beside its own NDR.
Identity Detection × Network Correlation
The grid nobody publishes — depth in identity detection vs how much the platform correlates with network signal.
Thin alone; strong network correlation.
Positions are TechBag’s illustrative synthesis of public review-platform data and vendor documentation — not a reproduction of any analyst graphic. Verify before relying on it.
LinkShadow ITDR vs the identity-security alternatives
Entra ID Protection may already be licensed to you — the honest question is what this detects that your existing tools do not.
| Dimension | LinkShadow ITDR | Entra ID Protection | CrowdStrike Identity | Silverfort |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Replaces your identity provider | No — by design | No — part of Entra | No | Adds enforcement |
| Correlation with network traffic | Yes — with its NDR | No | Endpoint-correlated | No |
| Analyst recognition for ITDR | None | Established | Established | Established |
| Overlap with what you may own | High | Included | Bundled | Distinct |
| Published pricing | None at all | Published | Quote-only | Quote-only |
| India data residency | Not offered | Region options | Confirm | Confirm |
| Named public customers | None published | Published | Published | Published |
Which approach fits you?
Honest fit signals — because the fastest way to lose your trust is to pretend one product wins every scenario.
Choose LinkShadow ITDR if…
- You are ALREADY running LinkShadow NDR and want identity signal correlated with network behaviour in one console
- The compound detection is the goal — the same account, on a beaconing host, reaching something new
- You have checked overlap and confirmed it detects something your existing identity tooling does not
Look at what you already own first if…
- You run Microsoft Entra ID Protection — often already licensed with Entra ID P2, and it may cover much of this
- You run CrowdStrike Identity Protection or Silverfort — expect material duplication, and test it in a PoC
- You need analyst validation in this specific category, or published pricing for budget approval
Do not buy ITDR at all if…
- You expect it to authenticate — it issues no credentials, enforces no MFA and replaces no identity provider
- Nobody will action the detections in your identity provider — a finding nobody can act on does not reduce risk
- This would be your only LinkShadow module and the correlation argument therefore does not apply
Run the overlap audit first if…
- You already pay for Entra ID Protection, CrowdStrike Identity Protection or Silverfort
- You are unsure which detections are genuinely additive on your estate
- TechBag runs this before a PoC — paying twice for the same detections helps nobody
Revisit in twelve months if…
- You are evaluating LinkShadow NDR but have not committed — the correlation case depends entirely on it
- Your identity provider is mid-migration; baseline detection on a moving estate produces noise, not signal
- India data residency is a hard requirement today, which LinkShadow does not currently offer
LinkShadow ITDR is one of 30 IAM, SSO & MFA products TechBag carries. The IAM, SSO & MFA guide narrows them to a shortlist and shows the reasoning. →
What does an unwatched identity cost you?
Drag the sliders (identities in scope; IT-hour cost as loaded rate). Estimates model analyst time investigating identity incidents without behavioural baselining — the avoided-breach value of catching credential misuse early is the larger, unpriced win. Illustrative.
Loaded cost = salary + overheads per productive hour. Illustrative only — your TechBag quote models your actual environment and modules.
Three ways to consume it
LinkShadow publishes NO price. TechBag audits overlap with what you already own FIRST, then scopes and quotes in INR with GST — modules priced separately.
ITDR (module)
Best beside LinkShadow NDR
- Behavioural detection on your existing IdP
- Detects — your identity provider enforces
- No analyst recognition of its own
+ Platform add-ons
Best for a broader rollout
- Scoped to your estate
- Add-on modules as needed
- Phased, right-sized deployment
+ NDR correlation
Best if you own both
- Same account, beaconing host, new resource
- A detection neither module makes alone
- Requires more than one module
Buy it for less — TechBag pricing beats list
Whatever the list prices above, TechBag negotiates a significantly better deal — with GST-compliant INR invoicing and local support. Ask us for your discounted quote.
Get an India-ready quote
Tell us your requirements and current tools — we’ll model it against what you spend today.
The 8 questions to ask every vendor
Take this into your next vendor call — including ours.
Does everyone in the evaluation understand this DETECTS rather than authenticates? It sits beside your IdP, never instead of it.
Do you run Entra ID Protection, CrowdStrike Identity or Silverfort? Audit the duplication BEFORE a PoC, not during.
Which of YOUR IAM, PAM and SSO systems does it actually read, and at what fidelity? A system it cannot see, it cannot judge.
Are you running LinkShadow NDR too? If not, the main argument for this module does not apply to you.
Who acts on a detection, in which system, how fast? Enforcement happens in your identity provider, not here.
Does your board expect independent validation? There is none for this module — the 2026 Visionaries placement is for NDR.
What identity telemetry about your workforce leaves India? No residency is offered — get the answer in writing.
Can you approve without a list price? LinkShadow publishes none; TechBag returns a scoped INR quote with GST.
Questions buyers ask
Ready to evaluate LinkShadow ITDR?
Start with an overlap audit against Entra ID Protection, CrowdStrike or Silverfort — TechBag runs that before a proof of concept, because paying twice for the same detections helps nobody.
Stats, ratings, review counts and pricing are illustrative and sourced from public materials; verify before purchase.