Hybrid Identity Protection

How Cybersecurity Is Evolving from EDR to XDR to ITDR

How Cybersecurity Is Evolving from EDR to XDR to ITDR

  • Sean Deuby | Principal Technologist, Americas

As businesses embrace hybrid work and digitization, endpoint, and identity are moving perpetually closer. Both professions are evolving, and to make the most of this evolution, people on both sides will need to cross the aisle. In a recent episode of the Hybrid Identity Protection podcast, I discuss this evolution…

Purple Knight Introduces Entra ID (formerly Azure AD) Security Indicators

Purple Knight Introduces Entra ID (formerly Azure AD) Security Indicators

  • Tammy Mindel

Purple Knight, the free Active Directory (AD) security assessment tool downloaded by 10,000-plus users, now enables you to identify and address security gaps across your hybrid identity environment. That's right: The latest release of Purple Knight introduces Entra ID security indicators. The ability to address security gaps across both on-prem…

7 Active Directory Misconfigurations to Find and Fix—Now

7 Active Directory Misconfigurations to Find and Fix—Now

  • Orin Thomas

Exploiting Active Directory misconfigurations is a popular path for attackers. According to Microsoft, 95 million AD accounts are targeted every day. Attackers use Active Directory security vulnerabilities to gain privileged access and move through the compromised systems, harvesting valuable assets, installing malware, or planting ransomware, among other tactics. Protect your…

Hybrid Identity Protection: IAM Expert Daniel Stefaniak

Hybrid Identity Protection: IAM Expert Daniel Stefaniak

  • Sean Deuby | Principal Technologist, Americas

A recent report from Secure Code Warrior found that just 14% of surveyed developers listed app security as a top priority. What’s behind this astounding (and disturbing) statistic? In the most recent episode of the Hybrid Identity Podcast (HIP), Daniel Stefaniak, Senior Product Manager for Identity and Access Management at…

Hybrid Identity Protection: IDPro Founder Ian Glazer

Hybrid Identity Protection: IDPro Founder Ian Glazer

  • Sean Deuby | Principal Technologist, Americas

You won’t want to miss the newest episode of the Hybrid Identity Podcast (HIP)! In this session, I have the pleasure of talking with IDPro founder and Salesforce Senior VP of Identity Product Management Ian Glazer. What's new at IDPro? IDPro has become the organization for identity pros looking for…

Revisiting the Colonial Pipeline Cyberattack, One Year Later

Revisiting the Colonial Pipeline Cyberattack, One Year Later

  • Semperis Team

The Colonial Pipeline cyberattack in May 2021 ranks as one of the top critical infrastructure attacks to date. At the time, Semperis Director of Services Sean Deuby predicted that the ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) attack was an “implication of what is to come … open season on infrastructure providers.” One year later,…

New Azure AD Security Indicators Help Protect Hybrid Identity Environments

New Azure AD Security Indicators Help Protect Hybrid Identity Environments

  • Itay Nachum

Hybrid computing environments will be the norm for the foreseeable future: According to a 2021 Gartner report, only 3% of mid-sized and large organizations will migrate completely from on-premises Active Directory (AD) to a cloud-based identity service by 2025. But IT leaders managing hybrid environments face an increasingly complex challenge:…

Defending Hybrid Identity Environments Against Cyberattacks

Defending Hybrid Identity Environments Against Cyberattacks

  • Edward Amoroso

As the world continues to embrace digital transformation and distributed work, businesses will continue to deploy SaaS apps—while continuing to use on-premises tools. Hybrid ecosystems are becoming increasingly common as a result. Unfortunately, current identity and access management (IAM) practices simply aren’t up to the task of managing them. The…