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Takeaways from Zerologon: The Latest Domain Controller Attack
- Thomas Leduc
If there was ever a time to re-examine the security of your Active Directory, it’s now. In response to rising concerns about the notorious Zerologon vulnerability (CVE-2020-1472), the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has issued an "Emergency Directive" to federal agencies to apply Microsoft's patch immediately. Enterprises would…
New survey reveals dangerous gaps in crisis management plans
- Thomas Leduc
When a storm hits, the one who is most prepared is the one who will weather it best. For IT, this storm is digital, a flurry of cyberattacks that routinely touches down on the shores of Microsoft Active Directory (AD). AD is a juicy target, and we all know why.…
Take Back the Keys to Your Kingdom with the Latest Release of Semperis Directory Services Protector
- Darren Mar-Elia | VP of Products
Active Directory is foundational to everything you do and the #1 new target for attackers. Since it wasn’t originally built with today’s threats in mind, Active Directory is riddled with inherent soft spots and risky configurations that attackers are readily taking advantage of. We, here at Semperis, are excited to announce a new release of Directory Services Protector (DS Protector) and the powerful features it includes to detect dangerous vulnerabilities, intercept…
Semperis introduces tools to improve security resiliency of Windows Active Directory
- Byron Acohido
Ransomware continues to endure as a highly lucrative criminal enterprise. Ransomware hacking groups extorted at least $144.35 million from U.S. organizations between January 2013 and July 2019. That’s the precise figure recently disclosed by the FBI — the true damage is almost certainly a lot steeper, given only a portion of cyber…
How To Prepare For Cyberwar: It Starts With Identity
- Mickey Bresman
Cyberattacks are rapidly evolving in sophistication and scale. The line between the digital and the physical realm has become more blurred. Foreign cyberattackers have used destructive malware to erase data from hard drives and made moves to infiltrate industrial systems. They could make equally damaging moves in the future, given recent political…
Cyber Scenarios Expose Shortcomings of BMR
- Darren Mar-Elia | VP of Products
Ransomware and wiper attacks are causing organizations to re-evaluate their backup and recovery capabilities. An obvious concern is whether backups are safe – for example, are they offline where they can’t be encrypted or wiped. While this is a good first step, it’s just that. We also need to evaluate…
Why Most Organizations Still Can’t Defend against DCShadow
- Darren Mar-Elia | VP of Products
DCShadow is a readily available technique that allows an attacker to establish persistent privileged access in Microsoft Active Directory (AD). Specifically, DCShadow allows an attacker with privileged access to create and edit arbitrary objects in AD without anyone knowing. This allows the attacker to create backdoors all over AD that…
NSA Sounds the Alarm on BlueKeep
- Darren Mar-Elia | VP of Products
July 29, 2019 Update: With over 800,000 Windows systems still unpatched and vulnerable (as of July 2), concern over BlueKeep remains high, especially after a detailed guide on how to write an exploit was posted online last week. Other indications that the vulnerability is not going unnoticed include publication of…
