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Identity security assessment and attack path management

Lightning Intelligence

Powerful continuous monitoring and attack path analysis for hybrid identity environments

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Uncover and close security gaps in your hybrid AD and Entra ID identity environment

Lightning Intelligence continuously assesses identity security posture across multi-forest AD and multi-tenant Entra ID, surfaces risky misconfigurations and attack paths—including agent identity IOEs—so you can close gaps before attackers reach Tier 0 assets.

Continuous security posture assessment for AD and Entra ID
Attack path analysis focused on Tier 0 assets
Easy SaaS deployment
Scalable to large, complex environments

Continuously monitor and close risky attack paths

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Simple, powerful security posture monitoring

Lack of visibility into security indicators of exposure (IOEs) across hybrid identity environments increases cybersecurity risk for organizations of all sizes. Lightning Intelligence provides clear security posture insights across hybrid AD and Entra ID environments, including agent identities, in an easily deployed SaaS solution to simplify security posture assessments.

  • Conducted scheduled and on-demand IOE scanning for hundreds of vulnerabilities, including agent identity exposures
  • See AD and Entra ID security posture trends and insights in a single dashboard view
  • Generate on-demand security posture assessment reports
  • Accelerate deployment with no DC agent installation required
  • Scale to large multi-forest and multi-tenant hybrid environments
Lightning Intelligence attack path management
Advanced attack path analysis and remediation

Uncover and close risky attack paths leading to Tier 0 assets that threat actors can exploit to gain control over your business-critical systems. Lightning Intelligence simplifies and accelerates attack path analysis so you can prioritize high-impact remediation, establish security zones, and mitigate risky attack paths.

  • Generate a visual map of risky paths leading to Tier 0 assets
  • Understand which identity objects have the highest attack exposure
  • Establish secure zones to protect assets from unwanted access
  • Identify previously undisclosed domain-persistence techniques

See Lightning Intelligence attack paths in action

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Expose critical identity attack paths

Analyze risky relationships in your directory environment and see how to work with filters, the graph visualization, and the zone overview to zero in on the most critical paths to Tier 0 objects.

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Understand the identity system threat magnitude

Navigate the graph interface, understand object relationships, and use the perimeter view to identify potentially dangerous objects that could pose security risks.

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Save time with an inside-out approach to analyzing attack paths

Investigate potential attack paths and security risks for organizational units and user accounts, identify Tier 0 objects, analyze dangerous permissions like authenticated users having owner rights on organizational units, and trace attack paths through GPOs and user accounts.

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Easily track identity security posture with Lightning Intelligence

Lack of visibility into security indicators of exposure (IOEs) across hybrid identity environments makes security posture assessments challenging. Without a clear view of risky misconfigurations across the system, IT and security teams struggle to identify and address security problems.

Lightning Intelligence provides clear security posture insights across multi-forest AD and multi-tenant Entra ID environments, saving time and reducing risk of cyberattacks. Lightning Intelligence scans the environment and displays security scores for each forest or tenant in a single dashboard, accelerating remediation and reducing potential downtime from an attack.

Ponemon Institute

86%
of large enterprises experienced at least one identity-related breach

Semperis Ransomware Risk Report 2025

83%
of ransomware attacks compromised the victim organization’s identity infrastructure

Verizon DBIR 2025

53%
of breaches in 2025 were due to system intrusion

Sophos

11 hours
the median time for attackers to compromise Active Directory after initial access

Frequently asked questions about Lightning Intelligence

What is Lightning Intelligence?

Lightning Intelligence, a prevention-focused module, provides security posture insights (indicators of exposure, or IOEs) for multi-forest AD and multi-tenant Entra environments, displayed in a clear dashboard to save remediation time and reduce cyberattack risk. It is part of Semperis’ Lightning cyber resilience platform for identity-based security posture, ITDR, change auditing, and forensics. Built for seamless deployment in the most complex environments, Lightning delivers continuous enhancements to help organizations stay ahead of the constantly changing threat landscape.

What is different about Lightning Intelligence from other identity system vulnerability assessments?

Lightning Intelligence provides an easily deployed (SaaS-based) solution for continuously evaluating complex environments with multiple AD forests and Entra ID tenants, which are increasingly targeted by cyberattackers. Organizations can easily uncover and remediate security vulnerabilities across the complex environments, continuously track new vulnerabilities, see weekly security trend lines, and generate easily understood reports for security and IT teams as well as leaders.

How is Lightning Intelligence deployed?

Lightning Intelligence is deployed as a SaaS model, which enables frequent updates to add new indicators as they are developed by the Semperis threat research team. To run Lightning Intelligence, you’ll first install a collector on a domain-joined machine in each forest. Installation on a DC is not necessary. The collector runs as a Windows service, handles indicator runs, sends results to the cloud, and reports a health status.  

Is Lightning Intelligence intended for small businesses or larger organizations?

Both: Lightning Intelligence provides easy-to-deploy, online security posture assessment, making it easy for small to mid-sized businesses and large organizations with complex identity environments to see security vulnerabilities across the hybrid AD and Entra ID environment at a glance. The dashboard displays a security posture score and weekly trend lines so organizations can track posture over time. Lightning Intelligence also accommodates multi-forest AD and multi-tenant Entra ID environments for some of the largest organizations in the world. 

Save time and reduce risk with online security posture assessment for AD and Entra ID

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