Identity Threat Detection & Response

Power up Entra ID Security Assessments

Power up Entra ID Security Assessments

  • Semperis Team

Want to use the free Purple Knight tool to evaluate your Entra ID security posture? To run Purple Knight in your Entra ID environment, you need to create and update the app registration in Entra ID with a defined and consented set of application permissions for the Microsoft Graph. Semperis…

Purple Knight Proves Essential for Securing AD at Southern Utah University

Purple Knight Proves Essential for Securing AD at Southern Utah University

  • Semperis Team

Legacy Active Directory (AD) environments are often hotbeds of cybersecurity vulnerabilities because of misconfigurations that have accumulated over time. In education organizations, the challenges of securing AD are compounded by the constant onboarding and offboarding of students and faculty. Uncovering unknown vulnerabilities in the AD environment he inherited was a…

Hybrid Identity Protection with Denis Ontiveros Merlo

Hybrid Identity Protection with Denis Ontiveros Merlo

  • Sean Deuby | Principal Technologist

Security architectures depend on identity—the “new security boundary.” Yet despite investment in identity and attempts to drive a sustainable identity culture, significant security breaches and friction still exist, given competing priorities and views on value. In this session of the HIP Podcast, originally recorded during a Hybrid Identity Protection Conference,…

Identity Attack Watch: July 2022

Identity Attack Watch: July 2022

  • Semperis Research Team

Cyberattacks targeting Active Directory are on the upswing, putting pressure on AD, identity, and 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 used AD…

Hybrid Identity Protection with Dr. Nestori Synnimaa

Hybrid Identity Protection with Dr. Nestori Synnimaa

  • Sean Deuby | Principal Technologist

“Every component in your on-prem environment that is part of a hybrid [Active Directory] configuration needs to be treated as a Tier 0 server, so they need to be protected as well as your domain controllers,” explains Dr. Nestori Synnimaa, AADInternals creator and Sr Principal Security Researcher at Secureworks Counter…

How Cybersecurity Is Evolving from EDR to XDR to ITDR

How Cybersecurity Is Evolving from EDR to XDR to ITDR

  • Sean Deuby | Principal Technologist

As businesses embrace hybrid work and digitization, endpoint, and identity are moving perpetually closer. Both professions are evolving, and to make the most of this evolution, people on both sides will need to cross the aisle. In a recent episode of the Hybrid Identity Protection podcast, I discuss this evolution…

Purple Knight Introduces Entra ID (formerly Azure AD) Security Indicators

Purple Knight Introduces Entra ID (formerly Azure AD) Security Indicators

  • Tammy Mindel

Purple Knight, the free Active Directory (AD) security assessment tool downloaded by 10,000-plus users, now enables you to identify and address security gaps across your hybrid identity environment. That's right: The latest release of Purple Knight introduces Entra ID security indicators. The ability to address security gaps across both on-prem…

A Diamond Ticket in the Ruff

A Diamond Ticket in the Ruff

  • Charlie Clark

[Editor’s note: This blog was co-authored by Andrew Schwartz at TrustedSec.] One day, while browsing YouTube, we came across a Black Hat 2015 presentation by Tal Be’ery and Michael Cherny. In their talk and subsequent brief, Watching the Watchdog: Protecting Kerberos Authentication with Network Monitoring, Be’ery and Cherny outlined something…