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Cybersecurity risk management for Active Directory
Complete hybrid AD cyber resilience solutions
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The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in the United States standardized on an effectively future-proof framework to help model your own Active Directory cybersecurity risk management plan. New threats come up, and attackers keep trying, but the NIST Framework is structured to ensure all your bases are covered if – or rather when – an attack happens.
95M
attempted AD attacks every day
25.6B
Azure AD attacks in 2021
23 days
average downtime from ransomware attack
At Quest, we offer a complete and continuous AD and Office 365 cyber resilience lifecycle that provides defense in depth across many layers that map to the NIST Cyber Security Framework:
- Identify. Limit an attacker’s avenues into your environment with effective attack path management.
- Protect. Block adversaries from making changes to critical data or stealing credentials to gain a foothold in your environment.
- Detect. Sound the alarm faster with automated anomaly detection and object protection.
- Respond. Rapidly respond before damage spreads in the event of a security event.
- Recover. Get your systems and data back up and running faster, and make cybersecurity events non-events.
The days of a strong perimeter being enough are over. Attackers are getting more sophisticated, and their tools are getting more powerful. You need a partner every step of the way. See for yourself how Quest can help with complete cybersecurity risk management across your entire Active Directory environment.
Core Principles
Identify
Identify indicators of exposure (IOEs) and prioritize the attack paths an
attacker could use to own your environment. With Quest and SpecterOps
BloodHound Enterprise, you can quickly assess the potential risks in your
environment and make a plan to eliminate the most vulnerable paths based on
the calculated percentage of your organization that could utilize each attack
path. Pinpoint critical choke points to eliminate any lower path.
- Visualize every relationship and connection in AD and Azure AD, making it easy to identify new and existing attack paths.
- Measure the impact of any point in an attack path and identify optimal locations to block the largest number of pathways.
- Identify all critical Tier Zero assets and then automatically monitor them for any suspicious activity indicating they’ve been compromised.
Protect
Protect your environment to ensure attackers can’t make changes to
critical groups or GPO settings. Also prevent them from linking or
exfiltrating your AD database to steal credentials — regardless of the
privileges they’ve hijacked. Quest makes it easier than ever to
eliminate manual GPO management and governance tasks to reduce potential
cybersecurity risk.
- Ensure changes adhere to change management best practices prior to deployment, a critical step.
- Validate GPOs continually through automated attestation — a must for any third-party group policy management solution.
- Improve GPO auditing and verify setting consistency quickly and easily with advanced, side-by-side GPO version comparisons at various intervals.
- Revert back to a working GPO quickly in the event a GPO change created an undesired effect. In seconds, the environment can be running smoothly again.
Detect
Detect indicators of compromise (IOCs) with real-time auditing, anomaly
detection and alerting. Only Quest makes it easier than ever to detect
suspicious activity so the actions and affected accounts can be automatically
locked down and rolled back to previously safe versions if necessary.
- Audit all security changes across your AD and Azure AD environments.
- Monitor AD in real-time for active attacks and IOCs.
- Block attackers from leveraging critical attack vectors.
Respond
Respond quickly and accelerate investigations with automated information
gathering on indicators of compromise (IOCs), as well as additional indicators
of exposure (IOEs). Quest helps you make the most of the cybersecurity risk
management information you’ve gathered to automatically respond to
potential threats. Don’t wait until it’s too late; we can help.
- High-fidelity on-premises auditing of AD changes and authentications
- Azure AD and Office 365 user activity, security and configuration changes
- Hybrid security vulnerability dashboard with IOCs and IOEs from on premises and cloud activity
- Automated anomaly detection and critical activity alerts
Recover
Recover AD from a scorched earth scenario and restore business operations,
data integrity and customer trust in minutes or hours instead of days, weeks
or months. Only Quest helps you slash recovery times while bolstering recovery
fidelity to ensure user and customer trust. Get peace of mind that any AD
disaster will not become a business failure.
- Automate every step of the manual AD forest recovery process.
- Protect AD backups from compromise and eliminate the risk of malware reinfection.
- Restore cloud-only objects not synced by Azure AD Connect.
- Demonstrate and validate your hybrid AD backup and disaster recovery plan.