Hybrid Identity Protection

3 Steps to Protect AD from Wiperware

3 Steps to Protect AD from Wiperware

  • Darren Mar-Elia | VP of Products

We’re barely a month into the new year, but wiperware is back in the news. DevPro Journal notes a “drastic increase” starting last year, likely driven by geopolitical conflict. What is wiperware—and how can you protect your organization? What is wiperware? Wiperware is often used as part of an advanced…

How Can K-12 Schools Defend Against Ransomware?

How Can K-12 Schools Defend Against Ransomware?

  • Jared Vichengrad

The cybersecurity challenges in the government and education space are nothing new. Such challenges soared with COVID and continue today. Unfortunately, the cyber defense of mission-critical government and education services has not always kept pace, so we still see risk from several common vulnerabilities—especially for K-12 education organizations. But with…

5 Essential ITDR Steps CISOs Must Know

5 Essential ITDR Steps CISOs Must Know

  • Semperis Team

Just as the impact of cyberattacks is not confined to the IT department, the role of the CISO has expanded beyond the security team. With organizations and analysts now acknowledging that identity is the new security perimeter, overseeing a comprehensive identity-first security strategy has become an essential CISO responsibility. What…

How to Build a Strong ITDR Strategy

How to Build a Strong ITDR Strategy

  • Sean Deuby | Principal Technologist, Americas

How do you begin to build a strong Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR) strategy? It begins with an understanding of your unique identity environment, says Maarten Goet, Director for Cybersecurity at Wortell and an expert in Microsoft technologies and communities. “The top identity security concern is [organizations] typically don’t…

Closing Attack Paths to Tier 0 Assets with Forest Druid

Closing Attack Paths to Tier 0 Assets with Forest Druid

  • Ran Harel

After announcing Forest Druid, our free Tier 0 attack path discovery tool, at Black Hat 2022, we’ve used it to help some of the largest organizations in the world close off attack paths to Tier 0 Active Directory assets. Our work with these organizations has validated that defenders can save…

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…