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ADFR Azure Cloud Backup: Resilience, Security, and Integrity for AD Backups
- Tim Springston
- May 08, 2025
The ability to recover business operations quickly from a cyberattack is critical for business resilience—and central to the mission of Active Directory Forest Recovery. Azure Cloud Backup ensures your AD backups are secure, immutable, and ready for rapid recovery.
Active Directory Forest Recovery Raises the Bar on Identity Cyber Resilience
- Darren Mar-Elia | VP of Products
- Apr 18, 2025
As cyberattacks increasingly target Active Directory—used by 90% of businesses worldwide—identity system recovery has become a critical priority for most organizations. Semperis has added capabilities in Active Directory Forest Recovery (ADFR) that build on our years-long foundation of cyber-first Active Directory recovery, which continues to be a key differentiator in…
Introduction to Identity Forensics & Incident Response (IFIR)
- Huy Kha | Senior Identity & Security Architect
- Mar 21, 2025
From my experience at Microsoft Detection and Response Team (DART), I know that ransomware operators almost always target high-privileged identities. Once attackers gain control, they use those identities to spread ransomware; for example, through Group Policy or PsExec. Ransomware attacks are usually loud and destructive, aiming to cause maximum impact…
Top Pitfalls of Depending on Manual AD Forest Recovery After a Cyberattack
- Sean Deuby | Principal Technologist, North America
- Jan 15, 2025
Unless you avoid cybersecurity news, you know that Active Directory (AD)—the primary identity system for 90% of organizations worldwide—is now the #1 target for cyberattackers. AD controls authentication and access to applications and services across the organization. Attackers know that if they can disable AD, they can bring the business…
Cohesity and Semperis Provide Unmatched Cyber Resilience for Business-Critical Data
- Nico Devoti | Senior Director, Technology Alliances
An organization’s data is one of its most valuable assets—and a prime target for cyberattackers, who prove time and again that their victims will pay large ransom sums to get exfiltrated data back. According to Semperis’ 2024 Ransomware Risk Report, 78% of organizations that were hit by a ransomware attack…
Forrester TEI of Semperis: Organizations Reduce AD Forest Recovery Time by 90% with ADFR
- Sean Deuby | Principal Technologist, North America
Successfully recovering from an attack on Active Directory is a race against the clock. Organizations that have been through this worst-case scenario know that being able to recover your AD is just the start: The time to recover AD is a significant factor in the extent of the damage, a…
Best Practices for Active Directory Backup
- Sean Deuby | Principal Technologist, North America
Maintaining business continuity during and after a cyberattack has become a chief strategic objective, not just for enterprise cybersecurity, but for IT and business leadership as well. Effective Identity Threat Detection & Response (ITDR), including a documented Active Directory backup and recovery plan, is crucial to strong operational resilience. Identity…
New Forrester TEI Report: Semperis Slashes Downtime by 90%, Saving Customers Millions
- Sean Deuby | Principal Technologist, North America
How long could your organization go without access to applications and services because of an identity-related cyberattack? That’s the question we often ask security and IT ops leaders when we’re discussing the importance of protecting Active Directory and Entra ID from threat actors. The question seems hypothetical because it assumes…
