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Active Directory Backup & Recovery
Cohesity and Semperis Provide Unmatched Cyber Resilience for Business-Critical Data
- Nico Devoti | Senior Director, Technology Alliances
- Aug 09, 2024
An organization’s data is one of its most valuable assets—and a prime target for cyberattackers, who prove time and again that their victims will pay large ransom sums to get exfiltrated data back. According to Semperis’ 2024 Ransomware Risk Report, 78% of organizations that were hit by a ransomware attack…
Forrester TEI of Semperis: Organizations Reduce AD Forest Recovery Time by 90% with ADFR
- Sean Deuby | Principal Technologist
- Jun 06, 2024
Successfully recovering from an attack on Active Directory is a race against the clock. Organizations that have been through this worst-case scenario know that being able to recover your AD is just the start: The time to recover AD is a significant factor in the extent of the damage, a…
Best Practices for Active Directory Backup
- Sean Deuby | Principal Technologist
- May 23, 2024
Maintaining business continuity during and after a cyberattack has become a chief strategic objective, not just for enterprise cybersecurity, but for IT and business leadership as well. Effective Identity Threat Detection & Response (ITDR), including a documented Active Directory backup and recovery plan, is crucial to strong operational resilience. Identity…
Active Directory Security
Active Directory Security Measures for U.S. State and Local Government and Education
- Edward Amoroso
- Oct 24, 2024
[Editor’s note: This article is a guest post by TAG CEO and founder Ed Amoroso.] Broad cybersecurity support encompasses a wide variety of obligations, ranging from compliance documentation to user training. But the most challenging—and essential—aspect of Microsoft Active Directory (AD) security involves the detection of attacks, before, during, and…
The Role of Active Directory in U.S. Public Sector Cybersecurity
- Edward Amoroso
- Oct 18, 2024
[Editor’s note: This article is a guest post by TAG CEO and founder Ed Amoroso.] Any observer of public sector cybersecurity will recognize the serious challenges in information technology (IT) protections for U.S. public sector agencies over the past few decades. Major incidents, such as the 2015 data breach at…
Password Spraying Detection in Active Directory
- Huy Kha | Senior Identity & Security Architect
- Sep 18, 2024
Password spraying detection is a vital ability for all organizations. In a password spraying attack, the attacker attempts to gain unauthorized access by trying a few common or weak passwords across many accounts rather than targeting a single account with many passwords. The idea is to test several passwords, hoping…
AD Security 101
How to Defend Against a Password Spraying Attack
- Daniel Petri | Senior Training Manager
- Jun 16, 2024
Active Directory remains a critical infrastructure component for managing network resources, login credentials, and user authentication. Yet its centrality makes it a prime target for cyberattacks. One such evolving cyberattack is password spraying, a threat that’s gained in complexity in recent years. Password spraying attacks stand out due to their…
How to Defend Against SID History Injection
- Daniel Petri | Senior Training Manager
Security Identifier (SID) History injection is a sophisticated cyberattack vector that targets Windows Active Directory environments. This attack exploits the SID History attribute, which is intended to maintain user access rights during migrations from one domain to another. By injecting malicious SID values into this attribute, an attacker can escalate…
LDAP Injection Attack Defense: AD Security 101
- Daniel Petri | Senior Training Manager
LDAP injection represents a formidable cyberattack vector, targeting the authentication and authorization mechanisms within your Active Directory environment. By exploiting improper input validation, attackers can manipulate LDAP statements and potentially gain unauthorized access to your directory service. Semperis cybersecurity and identity security experts have a deep understanding of LDAP injection,…
Community Tools
Hello, My Name Is Domain Admin
- Mickey Bresman
- Aug 05, 2024
My friends know I’m a movie buff. Being also a mixed martial enthusiast, one of my all-time favorites is Fight Club, based on Chuck Palahniuk’s first novel. The story is about an identity crisis: rebelling against consumerism, trying to find truth and meaning in life, and becoming a “real” person…
Strengthening Cyber Incident Response with Forest Druid
- Huy Kha | Senior Identity & Security Architect
- Aug 01, 2024
Forest Druid is a free cyber attack path discovery tool for hybrid identity environments, such as Active Directory and Entra ID. Unlike traditional tools that map attack paths from the external perimeter inwards, Forest Druid focuses on protecting the most critical assets first. This method prioritizes identifying and securing Tier…
Purple Knight Scoring Improves Understanding of Identity System Security Vulnerabilities
- Ran Harel
Our latest Purple Knight (PK) v4.2 release introduces fundamental changes, particularly concerning the new scoring calculation. Changing from a broader approach that considered all indicators, we’ve now zeroed in on the “failed” indicators, those that highlight genuine security threats in your environment. This shift aims to ensure that the overall…
Directory Modernization
Security-Centric Active Directory Migration and Consolidation
- Michael Masciulli
Enterprise organizations with legacy Active Directory (AD) environments have a security problem. Their AD infrastructure has likely degraded over time and now harbors multiple security vulnerabilities because of inefficient architecture, multiple misconfigurations, and poorly secured legacy applications. Yet Active Directory migration and consolidation, especially involving a sprawling AD infrastructure, is…
Active Directory Migration: 15 Steps to Success
- Daniel Petri | Senior Training Manager
Active Directory (AD) migration projects can be challenging and complex. Such projects involve the migration of users, groups, computers, and applications from one AD domain or forest to another. Careful planning and execution can help your migration team complete a successful AD migration, with minimal disruption to end users and…
Why AD Modernization Is Critical to Your Cybersecurity Program
- Mickey Bresman
Active Directory (AD) is the core identity store for many organizations. As such, AD has also become a major target for bad actors. If attackers gain access to AD, they gain access to any resources in the organization. In a hybrid on-prem/cloud scenario, which is common today, that includes access…
From the Front Lines
Hello, My Name Is Domain Admin
- Mickey Bresman
- Aug 05, 2024
My friends know I’m a movie buff. Being also a mixed martial enthusiast, one of my all-time favorites is Fight Club, based on Chuck Palahniuk’s first novel. The story is about an identity crisis: rebelling against consumerism, trying to find truth and meaning in life, and becoming a “real” person…
New Ransomware Statistics Reveal Increased Need for Active Directory Security and Resilience
- Mickey Bresman
- Jul 31, 2024
By now, we’re all familiar with the need for an “assume breach” mindset where ransomware and other cyber threats are concerned. To better understand the necessity and challenges of this approach, we partnered with international market research firm Censuswide to ask organizations about their experience with ransomware attacks. What we…
LockBit, Law Enforcement, and You
- Mickey Bresman
Another day, another installment in the LockBit saga. The latest development in the never-ending story of cyber-criminal gangs versus law enforcement agencies is nearly worthy of its own TV series. But what does it mean for you—the person who must defend your organization and maintain its ability to operate amidst…
Hybrid Identity Protection
Password Spraying Detection in Active Directory
- Huy Kha | Senior Identity & Security Architect
- Sep 18, 2024
Password spraying detection is a vital ability for all organizations. In a password spraying attack, the attacker attempts to gain unauthorized access by trying a few common or weak passwords across many accounts rather than targeting a single account with many passwords. The idea is to test several passwords, hoping…
Semperis DSP: Enhance AD and Entra ID Protection from Cyber Threats
- Eitan Bloch | Semperis Product Manager
The SolarWinds breach in December 2020 signified a shift in the attack path for threat actors. Cyber threats increasingly target organizations’ cloud environments, typically Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure AD), then move to on-premises Active Directory (AD)—or vice versa. This begs the question: How secure is your hybrid identity environment…
Meet Silver SAML: Golden SAML in the Cloud
- Tomer Nahum and Eric Woodruff
Key findings Golden SAML is a known attack technique discovered by CyberArk and published by Shaked Reiner. For years, Golden SAML has been known for its extraction of signing certificates from Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) and its use of those certificates to forge SAML authentication responses. Today, we…
Identity Attack Catalog
Kerberoasting Explained
- Huy Kha | Senior Identity & Security Architect
- Oct 11, 2024
A recent report from the cybersecurity agencies in the Five Eyes alliance, including CISA and the NSA, urges organizations to strengthen the security of their Microsoft Active Directory (AD) deployments—a prime target for cyber attackers. The report describes dozens of attack techniques that attackers use to breach AD, including Kerberoasting.…
DCSync Attack Explained
- Huy Kha | Senior Identity & Security Architect
- Oct 09, 2024
Cybersecurity agencies from the Five Eyes alliance, including CISA and the NSA, are urging organizations to strengthen security around Microsoft Active Directory (AD), a prime target for cyberattackers. The alliance’s recent report highlights more than a dozen tactics that threat actors use to exploit AD. Among these common techniques is…
A New App Consent Attack: Hidden Consent Grant
- Adi Malyanker | Security Researcher
- Aug 13, 2024
Key findings Within Microsoft Azure, the Directory.ReadWrite.All permission holds significant implications. This permission enables a multitude of actions, including user editing and access to all data within the directory. Sound risky? Some have argued that when employed in isolation, the permission poses no inherent risk. However, my research indicates that…
Identity Threat Detection & Response
Password Spraying Detection in Active Directory
- Huy Kha | Senior Identity & Security Architect
- Sep 18, 2024
Password spraying detection is a vital ability for all organizations. In a password spraying attack, the attacker attempts to gain unauthorized access by trying a few common or weak passwords across many accounts rather than targeting a single account with many passwords. The idea is to test several passwords, hoping…
The 5 Pillars for DORA Compliance in Active Directory
- Daniel Lattimer | Area Vice President – EMEA West
- Aug 30, 2024
The Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) is an incoming European Union (EU) legislative framework aimed at fortifying the operational resilience of digital systems within the financial sector. All finance entities that operate in or with the EU need to achieve DORA compliance by early 2025, as do information and communication…
A New App Consent Attack: Hidden Consent Grant
- Adi Malyanker | Security Researcher
- Aug 13, 2024
Key findings Within Microsoft Azure, the Directory.ReadWrite.All permission holds significant implications. This permission enables a multitude of actions, including user editing and access to all data within the directory. Sound risky? Some have argued that when employed in isolation, the permission poses no inherent risk. However, my research indicates that…
Our Mission: Be a Force for Good
Duns 100 Ranks Semperis in Top 15 to Work For
- Yarden Gur
This month marked two milestones for Semperis. First, Deloitte recognized the company as one of the 100 fastest growing technology companies in North America and (for the third consecutive year) one of the top 10 fastest-growing tech companies in the greater New York area. Then, the company was listed for…
What It Means to be a Mission-Driven Company
- Mickey Bresman
On behalf of the entire team, I’m excited to share that Semperis has been named to Inc.’s 2022 list of Best Workplaces. This annual list honors workplaces that are ranked highly by their employees on topics like benefits, trust in senior leadership, change management, and career development. I could not…
Hybrid Identity Protection: IDPro Founder Ian Glazer
- Sean Deuby | Principal Technologist
You won’t want to miss the newest episode of the Hybrid Identity Podcast (HIP)! In this session, I have the pleasure of talking with IDPro founder and Salesforce Senior VP of Identity Product Management Ian Glazer. What’s new at IDPro? IDPro has become the organization for identity pros looking for…
Purple Knight
Purple Knight Scoring Improves Understanding of Identity System Security Vulnerabilities
- Ran Harel
Our latest Purple Knight (PK) v4.2 release introduces fundamental changes, particularly concerning the new scoring calculation. Changing from a broader approach that considered all indicators, we’ve now zeroed in on the “failed” indicators, those that highlight genuine security threats in your environment. This shift aims to ensure that the overall…
Semperis Offers New Protection Against Okta Breaches
- Semperis Research Team
In an ever-evolving digital landscape, organizations rely on robust identity protection solutions to safeguard sensitive data and maintain secure operations. For most enterprise businesses, that means protecting Active Directory and Entra ID (formerly Azure AD). But identity protection is just as vital for organizations that use Okta, a cloud-based identity…
How to Prevent a Man-in-the-Middle Attack: AD Security 101
- Daniel Petri | Senior Training Manager
A man-in-the-middle attack, also known as an MitM attack, is a form of eavesdropping in an attempt to steal sensitive data, such as user credentials. These attacks can pose a serious threat to organizations’ network security, particularly in environments that use Microsoft Active Directory (AD) for identity management. As Active…
The CISO’s Perspective
Hello, My Name Is Domain Admin
- Mickey Bresman
- Aug 05, 2024
My friends know I’m a movie buff. Being also a mixed martial enthusiast, one of my all-time favorites is Fight Club, based on Chuck Palahniuk’s first novel. The story is about an identity crisis: rebelling against consumerism, trying to find truth and meaning in life, and becoming a “real” person…
New Ransomware Statistics Reveal Increased Need for Active Directory Security and Resilience
- Mickey Bresman
- Jul 31, 2024
By now, we’re all familiar with the need for an “assume breach” mindset where ransomware and other cyber threats are concerned. To better understand the necessity and challenges of this approach, we partnered with international market research firm Censuswide to ask organizations about their experience with ransomware attacks. What we…
DORA Compliance and ITDR
- Daniel Lattimer | Area Vice President – EMEA West
- Jun 19, 2024
Organisations in the financial services sector in the European Union (EU) have less than a year to demonstrate Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) compliance. What is DORA, does it apply to your organisation, and how does DORA compliance intersect with one of today’s major cybersecurity concerns: identity threat detection and…
Threat Research
A New App Consent Attack: Hidden Consent Grant
- Adi Malyanker | Security Researcher
- Aug 13, 2024
Key findings Within Microsoft Azure, the Directory.ReadWrite.All permission holds significant implications. This permission enables a multitude of actions, including user editing and access to all data within the directory. Sound risky? Some have argued that when employed in isolation, the permission poses no inherent risk. However, my research indicates that…
UnOAuthorized: Privilege Elevation Through Microsoft Applications
- Eric Woodruff
- Aug 07, 2024
This article details a series of Semperis security research team discoveries that resulted in the ability to perform actions in Entra ID beyond expected authorization controls, based on analysis of the OAuth 2.0 scope (permissions). Our most concerning discovery involved the ability to add and remove users from privileged roles,…
New Ransomware Statistics Reveal Increased Need for Active Directory Security and Resilience
- Mickey Bresman
- Jul 31, 2024
By now, we’re all familiar with the need for an “assume breach” mindset where ransomware and other cyber threats are concerned. To better understand the necessity and challenges of this approach, we partnered with international market research firm Censuswide to ask organizations about their experience with ransomware attacks. What we…
Uncategorized
AD Security 101: Lock Down Risky User Rights
- Daniel Petri | Senior Training Manager
In Active Directory (AD) environments, you can use Group Policy Objects (GPOs) to configure user rights. By using GPOs, you can easily enforce consistent user rights policies across all computers in the domain or organizational unit (OU). This capability makes it easier to manage and maintain user access control over…
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