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Active Directory security solutions

Hybrid Active Directory security solutions with defense in depth. Having rock-solid security is essential when Microsoft Active Directory (AD) and Entra ID are under attack relentlessly. Every day administrators encounter security threats to their directory services platforms. Gone are the days where all you had to worry about were phishing attempts or unauthorized firewall breaches. Nowadays admins must mitigate a new generation of access control privilege escalation attacks to their Active Directory domain, including password-based attacks, token replay attacks and privilege escalation attacks. It’s clear cybersecurity risk management needs to be a consideration, and even if the issues you’ve encountered aren’t intentional or nefarious, you still need to be prepared for the worst with a complete suite of Active Directory security solutions.
Active Directory security solutions
Overview of what Active Directory security solutions can do

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 suite of Active Directory security solutions, as well as cybersecurity and management solutions for Microsoft 365, that can help you provide 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 surface 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.
  • Govern. Ensure a holistic approach to the five other core functions of the NIST Cybersecurity Framework.

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 how Active Directory security solutions can help

Identify

Identify indicators of exposure (IOEs) to stay ahead of potential attackers. With Quest, you can quickly assess the potential risks in your environment and make a plan to protect your most exploitable vulnerabilities and AD configurations that demand attention. Identify where you’re exposed to stay out of an attacker’s reach.

  • Benchmark current Active Directory configurations against industry best practices. 
  • Identify and lock down critical objects, including GPOs, to prevent misconfiguration or compromise. 
  • Identify all critical Tier Zero assets and then automatically monitor them for any suspicious activity indicating they’ve been compromised.
Protect

Protect

Protect your environment to ensure attackers can’t make changes to critical groups, GPO settings or other security policies. Also prevent them from linking or exfiltrating your AD database to steal credentials — regardless of the privileges they’ve hijacked. Quest Active Directory security solutions make securing user accounts easier than ever by eliminating 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

Detect indicators of compromise (IOCs) with real-time auditing, anomaly detection and alerting. Quest Active Directory security solutions make 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  - Quest helps you make the most of the cybersecurity risk management

Respond

Respond quickly and accelerate investigations with automated information gathering on indicators of compromise (IOCs), as well as additional indicators of exposure (IOEs). Quest Active Directory security solutions help you improve incident response by making 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 any AD change and authentication
  • 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

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. Quest Active Directory security solutions help 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.
Govern

Govern

Govern the total cybersecurity lifecycle holistically. In the Cybersecurity Framework 2.0, NIST added Govern to its list of core functions. This 6th pillar underscores the rapidly-emerging belief that cybersecurity should not be a standalone practice left in the hands of a few key stakeholders, but rather something that must be integrated into an organization’s enterprise risk management strategy. Quest Active Directory security solutions can help you to:

  • Elevate cybersecurity visibility to the C-suite by interconnecting the five other cybersecurity functions holistically.
  • Have assurance that all core functions in the framework will be operational when (not if) a cyber attack happens.
  • Insulate your organization from additional harm by operating cybersecurity functions with full transparency and accountability.
  • Ensure proper oversight of regulatory frameworks with the Oversight component of the Govern function.

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Search and investigate changes made on prem or in the cloud from a single, hosted dashboard.

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North Central Texas Council of Government

If high-severity events occur, Change Auditor alerts us by email, so we can determine whether the change was made properly through our change management process of is a malicious act by a hacker.

Brett Ogletree Information Security Officer, North Central Texas Council of Government

AFV Beltrame Group

With Change Auditor in place, we have not only the continuous monitoring we need to ensure smooth business operations, but a historian that tracks exactly what happened. The GDPR requires tight response times, which are pivotal and compulsory, and Change Auditor enables us to achieve compliance.

Micro Destro CIO and IT Manager, AFV Beltrame Group

Large Retail Chain

Change Auditor object protection is a lifesaver. I have set it up to prevent changes to ACLs on certain directories on our files servers, as well as to protect all administrative accounts. We’ve had pen testers come in and be very surprised they couldn’t get past Change Auditor object protection.

Enterprise Administrator Large Retail Chain

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