Abstract: Methods and systems for detecting malicious attacks in a network and preventing lateral movement in the network by identity control are disclosed. According to an implementation, a security appliance may receive telemetry data from an endpoint device collected during a period of time. The security appliance may determine a threat behavior based on the telemetry data. The threat behavior may be associated with a user identity or user account. The security appliance further determines one or more additional user identities based on the user identity connected to the threat behavior. The security appliance may enforce one or more security actions on the user identity and the one or more additional user identities to prevent attacks to a plurality of computing domains from the endpoint device using the one or more additional user identities. The security appliance may be implemented on any network participants including servers, cloud device, cloud-based services/platforms, etc.