Active Directory Backup & Recovery

Why Recovering Active Directory from a Cyberattack Is an Essential Component of ITDR

Why Recovering Active Directory from a Cyberattack Is an Essential Component of ITDR

  • Guido Grillenmeier | Principal Technologist, EMEA

A plan for recovering Active Directory (AD) should be a priority for your identity threat detection and response (ITDR) plan. After all, we live in a federated world of hybrid identities, zero-touch login, and distributed work. In this digital landscape, everything is connected. For most organizations, AD is at the…

Operational Resilience: More than Disaster Recovery

Operational Resilience: More than Disaster Recovery

  • Sean Deuby | Principal Technologist, Americas

To contend with the explosion of cybercrime and its impact on business operations, many organizations are updating their disaster recovery plans to include cyber incident response. Many of the processes and guidelines in traditional disaster recovery plans have changed little in years, sometimes even in over a decade—making them ill-suited…

Identity Threat Response with Brian Desmond

Identity Threat Response with Brian Desmond

  • Sean Deuby | Principal Technologist, Americas

Identity threat response—the initial aspect of ITDR—is gaining importance as cyberattackers continue to find new ways into victims’ environments. I recently spoke with Brian Desmond, Principal at Ravenswood Technology Group, about his experience helping organizations secure identity and protect and recover critical identity assets like Active Directory (AD). “Anything that…

Active Directory Forest Recovery Introduces New OS Provisioning Tool

Active Directory Forest Recovery Introduces New OS Provisioning Tool

  • Omri Rubinstien

Even after more than 20 years of service, Active Directory (AD) remains one of the most critical components of the typical enterprise’s IT infrastructure. AD security is easy for users to take for granted when it is working. However, in the event of an attack, its criticality to business operations…

Why DC Snapshots Are No Substitute for Active Directory Backups

Why DC Snapshots Are No Substitute for Active Directory Backups

  • Sean Deuby | Principal Technologist, Americas

Most organizations have virtualized some or all their AD domain controllers (DCs). Virtualized DCs have their advantages, but they also introduce risks that didn’t exist with physical servers. One of these risks is the temptation to use hypervisor snapshots (a point-in-time VM image) for AD backups.   Don’t.  Let’s be clear: Even though Microsoft supports hypervisor snapshot restores since Windows Server 2012 (i.e., they won’t break AD as they could in…

The Growing Threat of Ransomware as a Service

The Growing Threat of Ransomware as a Service

  • Sean Deuby | Principal Technologist, Americas

Ransomware attacks have reportedly declined this year. But don’t start celebrating just yet. “Gang models are evolving,” notes my colleague, Alexandra (Alix) Weaver, Semperis Solutions Architect. “I caution everyone: Do not let your guard down.” Part of the changing trend, Alix says, might be attributed to an increase in the…

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Protecting Healthcare Organizations from Ransomware Attacks

  • Semperis Team

Active Directory has been a top cybersecurity tool for more than two decades. The problem with protecting AD—used by roughly 90% of the Fortune 1000 companies—from ransomware attacks is simply that it wasn’t designed for today’s security landscape. Many organizations don’t even know the full map of their deployment, making…

Organizations Prioritize ITDR Solutions That Protect Active Directory Before, During, and After a Cyberattack

Organizations Prioritize ITDR Solutions That Protect Active Directory Before, During, and After a Cyberattack

  • Itay Nachum

The word is out that identity systems—and Active Directory in particular—are prime targets for cyberattacks. As a company that pioneered solutions purpose-built for protecting and recovering Active Directory from cyberattacks, we were happy to see multiple research firms recently confirm the criticality of AD-specific cybersecurity solutions. Gartner not only named…