For security teams, resolving a cloud incident takes an average of 10 days — time attackers can exploit to cause further damage. The problem? SOCs often lack the context and cloud security automation they need to respond faster. That’s where the partnership between Torq and Sweet Security changes the game.

Why SOCs Need Torq and Sweet Security

Sweet Security delivers the real-time, cloud visibility SOCs need to identify threats quickly and accurately. Torq takes it further by automating the response process, bridging the gap between detection and action. Together, they empower SOC teams to neutralize threats in minutes — not days — reclaiming control over their cloud environments and staying ahead of attackers.

Sweet Security: Raising the Bar for Cloud Detection and Response

Sweet Security approaches cloud protection with precision and expertise that stands apart. Their platform combines unified cloud visibility across the cloud infrastructure, workloads, and applications with deep runtime context, enabling SOCs to detect and neutralize real-time threats as they unfold. By integrating cutting-edge, cloud-native technologies, Sweet equips security teams to handle even the most sophisticated attacks with confidence and resilience. 

Sweet’s Detection & Response capabilities reduce MTTR by enriching incident insights with detailed information on human and non-human identities, including roles, users, and service accounts. By correlating siloed cloud events into a comprehensive attack story and leveraging an advanced threshold mechanism to minimize false positives, Sweet ensures deeper context and alerts only on high-probability malicious incidents. Seamless orchestration with Torq further amplifies these capabilities.

Torq Hyperautomation: Transforming SOC Operations

Torq has redefined what’s possible for SOCs by enabling Hyperautomation across workflows. With Torq, SOC teams can design, deploy, and scale automated incident responses — reducing manual work and freeing analysts to focus on critical decision-making. Whether it’s accelerating the triage process, auto-remediating threats, or optimizing collaboration between tools and teams, Torq’s platform brings unmatched speed and precision to security operations.

Together, Torq and Sweet Security’s integration achieves what was once thought impossible: full-spectrum cloud protection, automated at scale.

What the Integration Delivers to SOC Teams

Torq and Sweet’s integration creates a seamless threat detection and resolution pipeline. Here’s how:

1. Unified cloud visibility meets real-time automation: Sweet Security provides SOCs unparalleled insight into cloud environments, while Torq transforms these insights into automated actions. When Sweet’s platform identifies an anomaly, Torq can immediately trigger a workflow to respond to the threat.
2. Proactive incident response: Cloud attacks often unfold in seconds, leaving SOC teams little time to react. With this integration, Sweet’s real-time detection feeds directly into Torq’s cloud security automation workflows, enabling SOCs to mitigate threats faster. For example, Sweet’s advanced capabilities allow for the detection of the human identity responsible for an incident and the ability to directly question the user about their activity — without requiring SOC intervention.
3. Customizable workflows for every cloud environment: No two organizations operate the same cloud stack. Torq’s no-code platform allows security teams to tailor response workflows that align perfectly with their unique cloud setups, ensuring that Sweet Security’s detections are met with tailored, effective responses.
4. Enhanced SOC efficiency and morale: Automation doesn’t just eliminate repetitive tasks — it empowers SOC teams to operate at their best. By integrating Sweet’s intelligence with Torq’s workflows, analysts are no longer bogged down by manual processes, allowing them to focus on strategic initiatives that strengthen overall security posture.

A Use Case: From Detection to Mitigation in Minutes

Imagine this scenario: Sweet Security identifies unusual activity in a cloud environment, flagging a misconfigured container with potential malware. The alert triggers a prebuilt Torq workflow that:

• Enhances alerts with additional context from threat intelligence sources, as well as data from cloud provider APIs and log services, such as AWS CloudTrail and CloudWatch.
• Automatically reaches out to asset owners through Slack or Microsoft Teams, enabling them to remediate minor issues without involving the SOC.
• Isolates the container while verifying the presence of malware.
• Deploys a remediation script to correct the misconfiguration.
• Directly engages the suspected user to verify their activity — eliminating the need for SOC intervention.

All of this occurs in minutes — not hours or days — significantly reducing the attack’s impact.

Looking Ahead: Strengthening the Future of Cloud Security

The Torq and Sweet Security partnership isn’t just about solving today’s cloud security challenges — it’s about preparing SOCs for the future. With the increasing sophistication of cloud-native attacks, the ability to integrate real-time detection with scalable automation will be a non-negotiable for every security team.

At its core, this collaboration underscores a simple but powerful truth: when detection meets automation, SOCs can achieve extraordinary outcomes. By combining Sweet Security’s advanced cloud-native detection with Torq’s Hyperautomation platform, security teams are no longer playing catch-up. They’re setting the pace.

Ready to See Cloud Security Automation in Action?

For a detailed walk-through on integrating Torq and Sweet, check out the Knowledge Base article. 

To learn more about how Torq and Sweet Security are transforming cloud security, schedule a demo today and experience the future of SOC operations firsthand. 

As organizations embrace zero trust and strengthen identity protections for human users with multi-factor authentication (MFA), privileged access management, and strict authentication controls, a major blind spot remains: non-human identities (NHIs). 

These include API keys, service accounts, OAuth apps, and machine-to-machine credentials, often holding powerful privileged access yet lacking visibility, rotation, or governance. Attackers have taken notice, increasingly exploiting these unmanaged digital identities to breach environments and escalate attacks. 

That’s why Torq and Astrix have partnered to deliver a fully automated, intelligent solution for securing NHIs. The solution combines Astrix’s real-time behavioral detection with Torq’s no-code remediation workflows to continuously protect against identity-based breaches.

Why Non-Human Identity Security Needs to Be a Priority

Cybersecurity teams invest heavily in protecting user identities, securing login credentials, and enforcing authentication. However, the rising number of non-human identities (NHIs) often escapes similar scrutiny, creating significant security vulnerabilities. NHIs have become a primary attack vector due to widespread lack of visibility, weak governance, and unmanaged permissions.

Common risks associated with NHIs include:

• Over-permissioned or over-privileged access
• Lack of credential rotation and MFA
• Unused tokens and keys increasing vulnerability
• Poor visibility across cloud and SaaS integrations
• Increased susceptibility to credential-based cyberattacks

The Hidden Risk Behind Digital Identities

Non-human identities frequently possess highly privileged access with little oversight. Service accounts, API keys, OAuth applications, and other machine identities can remain active indefinitely without periodic checks, making them prime targets for exploitation. Credential misuse or breaches involving these identities often go unnoticed until damage is already done.

Why Traditional Identity Management Falls Short

Traditional identity solutions, such as Identity Access Management (IAM) and Privileged Access Management (PAM), primarily focus on human users. They enforce policies like MFA, regular password rotation, and robust activity monitoring. These tools, however, are not built for automated services or non-human identities, leaving a substantial gap in security posture.

How Torq and Astrix Automate Non-Human Identity Protection

Torq and Astrix seamlessly integrate to deliver a comprehensive solution that automates the detection and remediation of non-human identity risks. By combining Astrix’s advanced behavioral analytics with Torq’s intelligent automation, security teams gain unprecedented visibility and control.

Detecting Anomalous Behavior in Real Time

Astrix Security applies behavioral analysis typically reserved for human identities to NHIs. By monitoring activity patterns, Astrix detects unusual behaviors, unauthorized access, or suspicious usage in real-time, closing gaps often overlooked by conventional identity management solutions.

Triggering No-Code Remediation Playbooks Automatically

When Astrix identifies an anomaly, Torq instantly triggers no-code remediation workflows based on preset rules. These automated playbooks rapidly address issues such as revoking access, rotating credentials, disabling unused identities, or alerting security teams, streamlining threat mitigation, and significantly reducing response times.

Enforcing Least-Privilege Access with Continuous Policy Management

Astrix continuously assesses and identifies NHIs with excessive privileges and dormant or outdated credentials. Torq automates the enforcement of least-privilege access policies by proactively removing unnecessary permissions, revoking unused tokens, and continuously updating identity posture, ensuring minimal attack surface exposure.

Strengthening Authentication and Access Control with Automation

Static access controls and manual credential management are no longer sufficient. As organizations adopt cloud-native infrastructure, DevOps pipelines, and an ever-growing array of third-party services, the number of digital identities — especially non-human ones — has exploded. 

Without automation, ensuring secure authentication and effective access control becomes unmanageable at scale. Automating these processes enhances identity hygiene, reduces risk, and allows security teams to enforce policy consistently across complex, dynamic environments.

Simulating MFA and Rotating Credentials Automatically

While multi-factor authentication (MFA) remains a cornerstone of identity security for human users, non-human identities often can’t use MFA in traditional ways. Organizations are turning to automated mechanisms that simulate MFA behavior like enforcing time-limited credentials, rotating keys after specific usage thresholds, or applying context-aware access restrictions. Automatically rotating credentials or secrets based on predefined policies helps prevent unauthorized reuse, reduce the impact of credential leakage, and limit the exposure window for attackers.

Securing Third-Party Integrations and External Access Points

Third-party applications and services can significantly expand an organization’s attack surface if not properly secured. Many breaches originate from overly permissive or forgotten integrations. Automating these external connections’ discovery, evaluation, and control is essential for maintaining security. By continuously monitoring for risky behaviors, organizations can automatically revoke or reconfigure access, enforce least-privilege principles, and minimize external risk without relying on manual reviews. 

Common Identity Security Challenges and How Torq Solves Them

Closing Visibility Gaps Across Cloud and SaaS Environments

Torq consolidates identity and security signals from your entire security and tech stack, providing unified visibility into NHI risks. By centralizing this information, Torq enables precise identification and quick remediation of identity-related vulnerabilities across the entire digital ecosystem.

Stopping Credential Misuse and Phishing-Style Exploits

With automated playbooks, Torq instantly identifies and stops credential misuse, proactively revoking compromised tokens, and preventing phishing-like attacks on NHIs. This immediate response capability significantly reduces security risks and minimizes potential damage.

Eliminating Alert Fatigue and Manual Remediation Backlogs

Manual remediation processes can overwhelm security teams, resulting in alert fatigue and delayed responses. Torq autonomously resolves repetitive and high-volume NHI-related incidents, reducing operational overhead and allowing security analysts to focus on strategic security initiatives.

Securing the Future of Identity Security

As the volume and complexity of non-human identities grow, so does the urgency of securing them with the same rigor applied to human users. API keys, service accounts, and automation credentials often fly under the radar, creating a hidden and highly exploitable attack surface. Traditional tools were never designed to manage this scale or speed. 

By integrating behavioral detection and intelligent auto-remediation, Torq and Astrix empower security teams to proactively manage identity risk, streamline response, and enforce consistent access controls. The result is a scalable, flexible, and future-proof approach to identity security that addresses today’s threats and tomorrow’s challenges.

Ready to close the gap on non-human identity risk? Request a demo to see how automated identity security works in action.

The rise of Non-Human Identities (NHIs) — think APIs, bots, service accounts, and machine identities — has expanded the attack surface in ways we’re only beginning to understand. NHIs now outnumber human identities in enterprise environments, often by a staggering ratio. While they streamline processes, enable scalability, and facilitate automation, these identities also present significant security risks.

The Growing Importance of Non-Human Identity Management & Security

Traditional approaches struggle to address the dynamic nature of NHIs, especially when it comes to:

• Lifecycle governance: Stale or orphaned accounts are often left unchecked, creating vulnerabilities and increasing the risk of unauthorized access.
• Contextual visibility: A lack of insight into what non-human identities are doing and why they are being used leaves security teams in the dark.
• Zero Trust alignment: Continuously validating the usage of non-human identities is critical to enforcing least-privilege policies and maintaining security.

Security teams are left grappling with blind spots, operational inefficiencies, and increasing exposure to breaches. This is not just a challenge — it’s a mandate for change.

Enter Torq and Clutch Security: a partnership reshaping how security teams tackle the complexity of non-human identity management and security. 

Empowering SOC Teams with Seamless Zero Trust and Incident Response 

Clutch delivers visibility into NHI activity, offering deep insights into how these identities are created, used, and misused. Torq enhances this visibility with AI-driven Hyperautomation that transforms insights into action. When used together, SOCs are given the power to:

1. Simplify complexity: Automatically ingest and contextualize Clutch’s NHI inventory into Torq workflows, enabling real-time decision making.
2. Enhance Zero Trust: Dynamically enforce least-privilege policies for NHIs with automated remediation.
3. Accelerate incident response: Detect NHI misuse through Clutch, then trigger Torq workflows to contain and remediate threats instantly.
4. Future-proof security: Transition to ephemeral identities without operational friction, ensuring NHIs always align with your Zero Trust goals.

Real-World Implementation, From Detection to Resolution

Consider a common scenario: a temporary service account is created for a one-off task but inadvertently granted excessive permissions. Without the right tools, detecting and remediating the issue might take hours or even days. With Torq and Clutch, this process becomes seamless:

1. Detection: Clutch identifies the account’s risky behavior in real time, flagging it for immediate review.
2. Automation: Torq triggers a workflow to revoke the account’s excessive permissions, notify the SOC, and autonomously document the event for compliance.
3. Prevention: Clutch provides recommendations for transitioning the account to an ephemeral identity, which Torq enforces automatically.

In short, this partnership enables security teams to do what they do best: defend their organizations with precision and confidence.

Ready to Transform Your Non-Human Identity Management and Security?

If you’re ready to bring Zero Trust to your NHIs and revolutionize your SOC, explore the Clutch-Torq integration today. Together, we’re setting a new standard for how enterprises secure their most overlooked — but most critical — identities.