Directory Services Protector

DORA and Your Identity Infrastructure

Understanding the implications of the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) is crucial, both to meet regulatory demands and to safeguard your identity infrastructure. This white paper provides comprehensive insights into DORA's requirements and practical strategies to enhance your compliance—and your organization's resilience. What's inside: Emerging threat landscape: Explore the latest…

Why Is Your AD an Easy Target for Hackers?

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Active Directory (AD) remains a cornerstone for many organizations, both on premises and integrated with Microsoft Entra ID in the cloud. Alarmingly, 90% of cyberattacks target AD, the central identity system for most enterprises. Semperis provides comprehensive protection for on-premises AD and Entra ID, offering continuous defense against identity-based threats before,…

Forrester Total Economic Impact of Semperis

A study of Semperis customers across healthcare, financial services, consulting, and energy sectors uncovered economic benefits totaling $9.5M, including reduced time to recover the AD forest, reduced likelihood of a successful AD attack, time savings in managing object- and group-level recovery, and time savings in monitoring the hybrid AD environment.

How to Recover Active Directory When Every Second Counts

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Microsoft Active Directory (AD) is a key target for cyberattackers. When AD goes down, so do your operations. Yet most organizations lack an AD-specific recovery plan or rely on manual recovery, which can take days if not weeks. Auditing your AD security stance and maintaining a solid incident response plan…

Recovering Operations After a Cyberattack

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Critical infrastructure organizations that manage operational technology (OT) systems or Internet of Things (IoT) devices face several challenges to effective cybersecurity, including outdated technology, the complexity of diverse environments, and an increased attack surface. Rob Ingenthron (Senior Solutions Architect, Semperis) discusses the challenges faced by organizations in healthcare, manufacturing, energy…

Don’t fall victim to Silver SAML

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Semperis security researchers Eric Woodruff and Tomer Nahum discovered Silver SAML – a new technique used to launch attacks from an identity provider against applications configured to use it for authentication. How does it differ from Golden SAML? How can enterprises respond to the threat? Senior Security Researcher Eric Woodruff…

The CISO’s Take on Identity-First Security: Altice Portugal CSO on Ransomware Defense

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José Alegria, former CSO at Altice Portugal, lays out the 3 top concerns for CISOs in his industry when it comes to ransomware and cyberattacks—and why he prioritizes Active Directory security.

Protecting AD: The Foundation of Your Zero Trust Identity Strategy

Cyberattacks are the most critical threat facing modern information technology. Most attacks start with identity compromise. For the past quarter century, identity in the enterprise has been synonymous with Microsoft Active Directory (AD). Therefore, AD is almost always involved in a cyberattack—either as the target or as a route to…

To Hell and Back: Recovering Active Directory During an Attack

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What do you do when your endpoint or other initial protections are breached? When intruders are already in your network and have even compromised your Active Directory (AD) forest? This is the true story of a ransomware attack—and how it was stopped. Join Semperis’ Principal Technologist and MVP alumnus Guido…

Strengthening Identity Management System Defense at Global Telecom Altice Portugal

Learn how the Altice team is using Semperis Directory Services Protector and Active Directory Forest Recovery to comply with ITDR best practices, accelerate threat mitigation, and ensure recoverability of the identity system.