Purple Knight Uncovers Legacy AD Misconfigurations for Washington State School District

Purple Knight Uncovers Legacy AD Misconfigurations for Washington State School District

Real Field Story: Patrick Emerick, Senior Systems Engineer, Washington State School District Patrick Emerick wanted to understand better what security challenges he faced in their Active Directory. Purple Knight was exactly what he was looking for. It was easy to use, easy to run, and easy to digest. It gave…

Purple Knight Proves Essential in Securing University’s AD

Purple Knight Proves Essential in Securing University’s AD

Real Field Story: Jim Shakespear, Southern Utah University Jim Shakespear, Director of IT Security at Southern Utah University (SUU), talks with Petri IT Knowledgebase about AD security and his experience using Purple Knight. Jim has been managing the AD infrastructure at SUU for quite a few years. The bulk of…

Prime Healthcare Slashes AD Disaster Recovery Time with Semperis ADFR

Prime Healthcare Slashes AD Disaster Recovery Time with Semperis ADFR

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Prime Healthcare is known for saving hospitals. Their top priority is making sure to protect patient information, as well as providing excellent care which directly impacts the community. David Yancey supports Prime Healthcare's mission by keeping the lights on. It is David's job to ensure that all the applications that…

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How Semperis Revolutionized Disaster Recovery for a Gulf Coast Business

Semperis Customer Spotlight: Paul Ladd, VP of Information Systems & Technology, AMOCO Federal Credit Union Paul discusses the challenges they faced with protecting and backing up their Active Directory during internal risk assessments, and how Semperis was able to quickly back up and restore their system. They emphasize the importance…

How We Recovered Active Directory From Cyberattack Hell

How We Recovered Active Directory From Cyberattack Hell

Tal Sarid, Semperis Director of Solutions, takes us through a real-life attack story in which a customer’s Active Directory was fully compromised. We used our Active Directory Forest Recovery (ADFR) solution to create a safety net, and ran our assessment tool, Purple Knight, to discover vulnerabilities. Our findings were significant:…

Active Directory Security Pro Tip: Staying Ahead of Ransomware Attacks that Exploit AD

Active Directory Security Pro Tip: Staying Ahead of Ransomware Attacks that Exploit AD

As we continue to follow the fallout from the Colonial Pipeline attack, Active Directory security pro and Semperis Director of Services Sean Deuby shares how your organization can stay ahead of RaaS attacks that exploit AD. What can you do now to harden your core identity systems against attackers? Request FREE access to…

How to Defend against DCShadow

How to Defend against DCShadow

The DCShadow attack exploits a switch in the Mimikatz utility that enables privileged users to inject malicious changes into Active Directory (AD) without detection. DCShadow takes advantage of native AD replication to avoid sending events to the AD security logs. DCShadow methodology: DCShadow empowers attackers (with admin rights) to spin…