Overview
Exaforce integrates with BambooHR to bring critical human resources context into every security detection and investigation. By ingesting employee profiles, organizational hierarchy, and reporting relationships, Exaforce enriches identity-based detections with business context that helps security teams quickly distinguish expected behavior from genuine threats.
How it works
Exaforce connects to BambooHR through secure API access to continuously ingest employee directory information, organizational structure, and employment lifecycle events. This HR data is normalized and mapped to identities across connected systems, including cloud platforms, identity providers, SaaS applications, and developer tools, creating a unified security graph that ties each user account to their current role, department, manager, and employment status.
Core capabilities
Identity enrichment with employee context
Exaforce automatically enriches every user identity with BambooHR employee attributes, including full name, job title, department, location, and more. This context appears directly in threat findings, eliminating manual HR system lookups and providing analysts with immediate situational awareness about who is involved in each security event.
Organizational hierarchy and reporting structure visibility
By mapping BambooHR reporting relationships, Exaforce provides clear visibility into organizational hierarchy. Analysts can instantly see who reports to whom, identify managers and their direct reports, understand department structures and cross-functional relationships, and evaluate whether access patterns align with reporting chains. This hierarchical context is critical for validating privilege delegation, assessing insider threat risk, and understanding the potential blast radius of compromised accounts.
Detect access from terminated or inactive employees
Exaforce continuously monitors for authentication attempts, API calls, and system activity originating from accounts associated with terminated or inactive employees in BambooHR. These high-risk findings are automatically prioritized since terminated staff should have no legitimate access, helping security teams quickly identify lingering access, compromised credentials, or offboarding process failures that create security gaps.
Flag anomalous behavior based on role and department
By understanding each user's job function, department, and seniority level from BambooHR, Exaforce can detect activity that deviates from expected patterns for their role. For example, a marketing employee accessing engineering code repositories, a junior analyst performing administrative actions typically reserved for senior staff, or a finance team member suddenly accessing HR systems outside their normal scope all become visible anomalies enriched with organizational context that helps analysts assess whether the behavior is suspicious or explained by legitimate cross-functional work.
Benefits
Exaforce transforms abstract security alerts into business-contextualized findings by connecting every identity event to the actual person behind the account, their role in the organization, and more. This improves triage accuracy and reduces false positives since analysts can immediately assess whether activity aligns with the user's job function and reporting relationships. Investigation speed increases because employee context, hierarchy, and more are surfaced automatically without manual HR lookups. The integration also strengthens insider threat detection by making it easy to spot access from terminated employees, privilege inconsistent with organizational hierarchy, or behavioral anomalies relative to peers in the same role.