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Semperis Customers Reduce Likelihood of Successful AD Attack by 25%
- Sean Deuby | Principal Technologist
- Jun 25, 2024
At Semperis, we always counsel our customers to prepare for the worst and assume that their identity systems will be breached at some point: A solid cyber-resilient AD recovery plan is critical. But the ideal scenario, of course, is to prevent an attack on the identity system (which is Active…
Simplify Active Directory Permissions Handling with Delegation Manager
- Darren Mar-Elia | VP of Products
One of the most tedious—but important—Active Directory administration tasks is assigning permissions to various people in the organization so they can access the objects and properties they need to do their work. The problem is that AD has a granular security model that can be cumbersome to manage, and failing to…
Identity Attack Watch: AD Security News, May 2024
- 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 assist IT professionals in comprehending and preventing attacks that involve AD, the Semperis Research Team publishes a monthly roundup of recent cyberattacks and provides additional…
New Forrester TEI Report: Semperis Slashes Downtime by 90%, Saving Customers Millions
- Sean Deuby | Principal Technologist
How long could your organization go without access to applications and services because of an identity-related cyberattack? That’s the question we often ask security and IT ops leaders when we’re discussing the importance of protecting Active Directory and Entra ID from threat actors. The question seems hypothetical because it assumes…
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…
Identity Attack Watch: AD Security News, April 2024
- 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 assist IT professionals in comprehending and preventing attacks that involve AD, the Semperis Research Team publishes a monthly roundup of recent cyberattacks and provides additional…
Introducing Lightning Identity Runtime Protection: ML-Powered Detection of the Most Successful Identity Attack Patterns
- Eitan Bloch | Semperis Product Manager
Many cyberattacks go undetected until the damage is done, despite organizations’ efforts to prevent them. And many successful identity attacks use the same tried-and-true techniques that have worked for years, such as password spray and brute force attacks. Microsoft estimates that password spray attacks are responsible for more than a third…
Identity Attack Watch: AD Security News, March 2024
- 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 assist IT professionals in comprehending and preventing attacks that involve AD, the Semperis Research Team publishes a monthly roundup of recent cyberattacks. In this month’s…
