Identity is foundational to modern security strategy. Identity-based attacks are on the rise, and most data breaches are caused by stolen credentials. With more than 18,000 customers and an Identity platform that performs billions of authentications every month, Okta is at the frontline of most of these Identity-based attacks. In the past month alone, Okta blocked around 2.38 billion malicious requests (more than 20% of all login attempts to the Okta workforce Identity Cloud) with a pipeline that separates malicious traffic from legitimate traffic in real time. In this blog, we’ll describe the details of the various layers in this pipeline with particular focus on the AI-based components. We’ll also describe how customers can use these features to protect their users from various types of Identity-based attacks. Defense in depth We need a multi-layered defense in-depth strategy to defend against Identity-based attacks for the following reasons. Many Identity-based attacks are.