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AD Monitoring: AD Security 101
- Daniel Petri | Senior Training Manager
An unmanaged Active Directory (AD) can have a profound impact on your operations, leading to downtime and increasing your vulnerability to network security threats. AD monitoring can provide insights you need to ensure smooth operations, optimize performance, and safeguard your network. Welcome to AD Security 101. This blog series covers…
Identity Attack Watch: AD Security News, February 2023
- Semperis Research Team
As cyberattacks targeting Active Directory continue to rise, AD security, identity, and IT teams face mounting pressure to monitor the evolving AD-focused threat landscape. To help IT and identity security professionals understand and improve AD security, the Semperis Research Team publishes a monthly roundup of recent identity-related cyberattacks. This month's…
Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR) Explained
- Semperis Team
User identity related threats are on the rise, requiring organizations to expand their cybersecurity budgets to focus on Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR) solutions. With identity-related threats such a hot topic, the Semperis team wanted to weigh in on how your security team can prevent identity attacks. If you’re…
3 Steps to Protect AD from Wiperware
- Darren Mar-Elia | VP of Products
We’re barely a month into the new year, but wiperware is back in the news. DevPro Journal notes a “drastic increase” starting last year, likely driven by geopolitical conflict. What is wiperware—and how can you protect your organization? What is wiperware? Wiperware is often used as part of an advanced…
How Can K-12 Schools Defend Against Ransomware?
- Jared Vichengrad
The cybersecurity challenges in the government and education space are nothing new. Such challenges soared with COVID and continue today. Unfortunately, the cyber defense of mission-critical government and education services has not always kept pace, so we still see risk from several common vulnerabilities—especially for K-12 education organizations. But with…
Identity Attack Watch: AD Security News, January 2023
- Semperis Research Team
Cyberattacks targeting Active Directory are on the upswing, putting pressure on identity and Active Directory (AD) security teams to monitor the constantly shifting AD-focused threat landscape. To help IT pros better understand and guard against attacks involving AD, the Semperis Research Team offers this monthly roundup of recent cyberattacks that…
5 Essential ITDR Steps CISOs Must Know
- Semperis Team
Just as the impact of cyberattacks is not confined to the IT department, the role of the CISO has expanded beyond the security team. With organizations and analysts now acknowledging that identity is the new security perimeter, overseeing a comprehensive identity-first security strategy has become an essential CISO responsibility. What…
How to Build a Strong ITDR Strategy
- Sean Deuby | Principal Technologist
How do you begin to build a strong Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR) strategy? It begins with an understanding of your unique identity environment, says Maarten Goet, Director for Cybersecurity at Wortell and an expert in Microsoft technologies and communities. “The top identity security concern is [organizations] typically don’t…
