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Active Directory Security Assessment

Semperis’ expert Active Directory Security Assessment (ADSA) provides an accurate view of the strengths and weaknesses in your current AD and Entra ID environment—with emphasis on protecting Tier 0 assets—and creates a documented set of recommendations for improving security tailored to your environment.

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Close security gaps threat actors target in Active Directory

Active Directory (AD) is one of the pillars of Identity and Access Management (IAM), providing authentication and authorization protocols for on-premises systems and integrated cloud platforms. As such, AD holds the “keys to the kingdom.” If attackers compromise your AD environment, they can move laterally to business-critical systems—which makes AD a prime target.

Microsoft Digital Defense Report:

88%

of organizations impacted by cyberattackers had “insecure AD configurations”

Purple Knight users report:

61%

average initial Active Directory assessment score (failing grade)

Microsoft Digital Defense Report:

1 hour, 42 minutes

median time for attacker to move laterally after device compromise

Crisis Readiness Report:

71%

of organizations experienced at least one high-impact cyber incident in the past year

Active Directory is the #1 attack target

Active Directory is the foundation of the IAM infrastructure that authenticates users and grants access to resources and integrated systems. Once an attacker compromises AD, they can abuse it to gain access to the business-critical systems directly or indirectly controlled by AD. Adequately securing Active Directory is a fundamental challenge for organizations because of security vulnerabilities that accumulate over time, lack of AD experience, inadequate resources to assess and remediate AD security problems.

Legacy AD systems

AD misconfigurations accumulate over years, creating security vulnerabilities that attackers can exploit

Inexperience in identity security

Organizations often lack sufficient AD security expertise

Lack of resources

Organizational failure to prioritize identity security leaves scarce time and resources for AD security best practices

Strengthen your identity system defenses with the Active Directory Security Assessment

Uncover AD security vulnerabilities, guided by Semperis experts

The Active Directory Security Assessment is conducted by Semperis’ team of AD security professionals through a combination of technical and non-technical engagements. We use questionnaires and interviews to elicit architectural and operational information from your organization’s key personnel. We also use automated scans and manual tools to collect technical information from AD and auxiliary systems. The assessment includes:

Security architecture review
Operational procedures review
Security configuration review
Attack path analysis

Action plan and security roadmap

The Active Directory Security Assessment produces a detailed list of findings, each with a concise description of the identified issue, the risk it imposes, a severity rating to support prioritization, and guidelines for remediation. imposes, a severity rating to support prioritization, and guidelines for remediation. The report presents:

Current state of the AD environment with key exposures
Recommendations and references to remediate security vulnerabilities
Tactical course of action to continuously improve your defenses against AD-related attacks

Active Directory Security Assessment Delivers Improved Security Posture

The expert-led ADSA helps organizations understand the security vulnerabilities in their AD environments, build and execute a remediation plan, and implement systems to maintain sound security posture.

Reviews architectural, operational, and technical levels through a comprehensive assessment
Aligns with industry best practices to hinder adversary tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTP)
Produces an actionable plan geared toward reaching the desired state
Provides a strategic roadmap for improving security posture and tactical steps for mitigating security exposures

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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Practitioners are confronted by a wide range of risks when it comes to Active Directory security. Topping the list of risks they see as most concerning are security flaws in Microsoft software, such as the Windows Print Spooler service and Exchange Server vulnerabilities, that open the door to compromises of Active Directory, the world’s most widely used directory system.
Paula Musich Enterprise Management Associates

Every minute that the identity system is down is extremely painful. I chatted with a customer who tested the Active Directory (AD) recovery plan with the systems that they had in place. They concluded that mitigation of an attack will take them seven days. That’s not acceptable, because it means that everything else in the organization will be down for seven days as well.
Mickey Bresman Semperis CEO

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

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