Test Your Active Directory Attack Preparedness

Guided Hybrid AD Disaster Recovery Planning and Exercise

Active Directory and Entra ID are the backbone of most organizations’ identity system, and the primary target for cyberattackers. No cybersecurity plan is complete without a fully tested plan for recovering Active Directory from a target cyberattack. Yet most organizations have not fully tested the AD recovery process. Gain confidence in your AD disaster recovery process with Semperis expert guidance.

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Ensure fast recovery of AD in a cyber crisis

Although many organizations have built an AD forest recovery plan, these plans have not been fully tested to account for the complexities of a real-life AD compromise, including the lack of a known good AD backup and failure to eradicate malware in the environment, leading to follow-on attacks.

Semperis’ 2024 Ransomware Risk Report found that 74% of ransomware victims were attacked multiple times—54% on the same day. Organizations that cannot quickly recover AD and resume normal business operations are more likely to pay ransom, yet 35% of those that paid ransom failed to receive decryption keys or were unable to recover their ﬁles and assets.

Semperis Ransomware Risk Report

74%

of ransomware victimes were attacked multiple times

Microsoft Digital Defense Report

76%

of organizations lack effective cyberattack recovery and response plans

Reduce downtime risk with expert-guided AD disaster recovery planning

The Semperis Active Directory Disaster Recovery Planning and Exercise service helps ADFR customers ensure the ADFR deployment is optimized, aligns their recovery time objective (RTO) and recovery point objective (RPO) parameters, and identiﬁes implicit dependencies that might hinder the plan execution during an incident.

AD disaster recovery plan review

Semperis AD recovery experts review your existing AD disaster recovery plan to understand the business goals, SLA, disaster scenarios, and methods currently in place to recover AD in the event of a disaster

Recovery planning workshop

Semperis experts work with you to analyze your business goals in a disaster (such as recovery point and recovery time objectives), remote sites, number of users requiring initial access, and environment recovery priority in case of a multi-forest disaster.

AD disaster recovery exercise

Recommended at least annually, in the DR exercise, Semperis experts conduct a simulated encryption of the entire organization and the process of recovering and regaining control over AD.

Optimize Your AD Disaster Recovery Plan

The Semperis AD recovery team has decades of experiencing helping some of the largest organizations in the world recover complex hybrid AD and Entra ID environments from targeted identity system cyberattacks. Tap into Semperis’ expertise to gain complete confidence in your ability to recover from a worst-case scenario.

Expose gaps in roles, responsibilities, and decision-making
Validate (or rethink) your recovery playbook
Improve cross-team coordination
Build confidence in your AD recovery plan at the executive level
Pressure-test real-world readiness, resilience, and disaster recovery

Altice secures Active Directory with Semperis

We made a decision to invest in a technology that 1) will speed up recovery and 2) will have the functionality to detect anomalous behavior. We moved to Semperis [because] ADFR guarantees that the backup is segregated from the normal backup ecosystem. I can recover from [ADFR] backups directly in a couple of hours.
José Alegria Altice Portugal Chief Security Officer

Unmatched global Identity Forensics and Incident Response expertise

Our team has more experience in Microsoft AD and Entra ID security and recovery than any other cybersecurity team in the world.

90+ years

of identity-related incident response experience

170+ years

of Microsoft MVP experience

25+

former Microsoft Premier Field Engineers (PFEs) on staff

30+ years

experience in data analysis for insider threat and risk monitoring

Semperis has unmatched expertise in AD breach response

Directory Services Protector delivers as promised, but the real value of bringing in Semperis was their people and their deep understanding of and insight into AD and AD-based attacks.
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Semperis has unmatched experience in breach preparedness and incident response to Active Directory and other identity-based cyberattacks. Semperis’ solution-based approach focuses not only on their premier technology to meet customer challenges but also best practices and guidance for people and processes, setting them apart from their competitors.
Learn more Sarah Pavlak Frost & Sullivan

Semperis was able to backup and restore AD insanely quickly. During our testing, we were able to back up and restore our Active Directory within 20 minutes to a completely different datacenter with minimal downtime. During a normal backup scenario, that could take 24-36 hours.
Paul Ladd AMOCO Federal Credit Union VP of Information Systems & Technology

We have lots of changes happening to our Active Directory environment, adding Linux servers, etc… [Directory Services Protector] helps us monitor and revert dangerous changes with one button click.
Read review IT Team Member, Enterprise Organization

The best AD recovery tool in the event of a ransomware attack!
Read review Director of Directories & IAM Solutions, IT Security & Risk Management Enterprise Banking Organization

With ADFR, I knew I wouldn’t have to go through hours and hours of clicking through procedures and potentially reintroducing malware. Being able to leverage ADFR in the first three hours of the incident response saved me probably two to three weeks.
Senior Security Manager