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Security Guardian

Enhance identity threat detection and response (ITDR) and bolster your security posture.

Powered by Generative AI and seamlessly integrated with Microsoft Security Copilot, Security Guardian accelerates hybrid AD threat detection, containment and response while minimizing downtime and exposure. From a unified workspace, it identifies and prioritizes high-risk misconfigurations and exposures and proactively safeguards critical objects to prevent threats before they escalate.

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Microsoft Security Copilot integration

Simplify security and protect Tier 0 with the ability to:

Benchmark your AD and Entra ID configurations against industry-security hygiene practices.

Lock down critical objects, such as GPOs, from misconfiguration and compromise.

Continuously monitor for anomalous user activities and emerging hacker tactics.

Leverage Generative AI intelligence to to simplify and accelerate threat detection and response.

Large Media Company

Security Guardian is the best tool we could find available for Identity threat hunting in Active Directory.

CISO, Large Media Company

Prysmian Group

Rebuilding an AD object that was improperly modified could take hours, which would impact operation ... the Quest object protection enables us to prevent such issues from arising in the first place.

Allessandro Bottin Global Infrastructure & Operation Manager, Prysmian Group

Large Retail Chain

We've had pen testers come in and be very surprised that they could not get past the Quest object protection.

Enterprise Administrator, Large Retail Chain

Key Benefits

Reduce Attack Surface

Assess your hybrid AD against industry best practices, surface misconfigurations and vulnerabilities, and get clear remediation guidance to improve defensive posture.

Simplify Active Directory Security

Remove the knowledge gap barriers of AD and Entra ID with visibility, control and protection of critical assets. Translate technical findings into clear business risks to drive faster, more informed decisions.

Proactively Protect Objects

Stop attacks in progress by blocking lateral movement and persistence techniques before they escalate, protecting critical systems in real time, not after damage is done.

Detect Anomalies

Leverage Generative AI and Machine Learning to identify unusual patterns in user/administrator behavior, such as spikes in failed sign-ins, permission changes, and file modifications, allowing you to respond quickly.

Avoid Alert Fatigue

Reduce the noise and easily surface high-value alerts, ensuring swift threat response.

Ensure SaaS Flexibility

Experience simple implementation, scalability and cost savings of SaaS deployments.

Reduce attack surface with simplicity and speed

With 600 million identity attacks taking place daily, securing identity is essential for maintaining business continuity, particularly in hybrid environments with Active Directory and Entra ID. The consequences of failure are dire, with Forrester reporting AD downtime costing up to $730K per hour. Unfortunately, identity security is complex, and many organizations face a shortage of expertise and resources, making it even harder to efficiently detect and respond to threats across sprawling, misconfigured environments.

Security Guardian addresses these challenges with powerful Generative AI and Machine Learning capabilities that empower organizations to detect anomalous behaviors, reduce alert fatigue, and proactively protect critical assets. Integrated with Microsoft Security Copilot, it delivers intelligent, automated identity threat detection and response across hybrid AD.

Hybrid AD Security Assessment with Active Directory security tool

Hybrid AD Security Assessment

Benchmark your current configurations against pre-defined industry best practices. Surface exposures and compromises that exist within the environment. Quickly mitigate these risks and reduce your attack surface.
Critical Asset Focus in our Active Directory security tool

Critical Asset Focus

Identify and prioritize Tier 0 assets effortlessly, ensuring that your most exploitable components receive the utmost attention. Gain full control over these critical assets, enabling you to modify the Tier 0 list dynamically, so you're always aligned with your organization's evolving needs.
Hybrid AD Threat Prevention

Proactive Threat Prevention

Activate dynamic, in-memory protection for Tier 0 assets, including sensitive GPOs, with the Shields Up capability. Contain incidents mid-flight by disrupting lateral movement and persistence techniques before they escalate, so you can protect critical systems in real time, not after damage is done. Get focused reports on object status, as well as the ability to effortlessly revert any unwanted changes to a previous, trusted state.
Hybrid AD Threat Detection with Active Directory security tool

Automated Threat Detection

Leverage Generative AI and Machine Learning to detect unusual activity in Active Directory and Entra ID, such as spikes in account lockouts, failed sign-ins, permission changes and file renames. Continuously monitor hacker TTPs (Tactics, Techniques and Procedures) and audit changes. With one click, Security Guardian GenAI Intelligence translates data into business-relevant summaries, enabling security teams to streamline investigations and effectively communicate risk to executives and stakeholders.

Fast Incident Response with Active Directory security tool

Intelligent Incident Response

Quickly understand the who, what, where and when of threats by connecting anomalies and highlighting key security signals. Security Guardian’s Generative AI delivers intelligent and contextual notifications, tailored remediation guidance and actionable recommendations designed for your environment, for faster, more confident risk mitigation. Seamlessly forward data collected to SIEM tools like Microsoft Sentinel and Splunk for integrated visibility and streamlined operations.

Unified Hybrid AD Security Workspace

Unified Security Workspace

Remove the complexity from AD and Entra ID security by focusing on core operations with a friendly user interface that provides visibility into exposures, vulnerabilities and other security signals seamlessly.

Microsoft Security Copilot Integration

Microsoft Security Copilot Integration with Active Directory security tool
Security Guardian integrates with Microsoft Security Copilot to provide comprehensive protection for your hybrid AD environment. By combining the strengths of both platforms, you gain a powerful solution that simplifies complex security threats, accelerates your response times, and empowers your security team to operate at peak efficiency.
Gartner lists Quest as a representative vendor for ITDR in the latest Emerging Tech Impact Radar: Security report

Security Guardian FAQs

While Microsoft Defender for Identity (MDI) provides robust security, Security Guardian offers additional specialized features that enhance Active Directory security and protection for your environment. Security Guardian alerts on specific attacker tools, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) within Active Directory, ensuring comprehensive threat detection. It enforces adherence to Privilege Account Management policies by hindering implicit relationships, especially concerning Tier 0 objects. Security Guardian automatically categorizes these critical objects and monitors any drifts from their known state. Furthermore, Security Guardian proactively identifies, alerts on, and protects critical objects (including GPOs) from setting changes and database attacks. It also retains findings and audit data in compliance with retention requirements, ensuring thorough and compliant security management.

Additionally, Security Guardian integrates with MDI by forwarding its findings to Sentinel, which, in turn, sends signal data to Microsoft Defender. * MDI to Sentinel forwarding requires special Microsoft licensing

Security Guardian enhances CrowdStrike Falcon AD by providing additional specialized features for your Active Directory environment. It alerts on specific attacker tools, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) within Active Directory, ensuring comprehensive threat detection. Security Guardian enforces adherence to Privilege Account Management policies by hindering implicit relationships, particularly concerning Tier 0 objects. It automatically categorizes these critical objects and monitors any drifts from their known state. Additionally, Security Guardian proactively identifies, alerts on, and protects against Active Directory misconfigurations, such as Group Policy Object (GPO) setting changes and database attacks (.DIT). It also retains findings and audit data in compliance with retention requirements, ensuring thorough and compliant security management.

Change Auditor and On Demand Audit provide enriched event data from Active Directory and offer Active Directory and Group Policy protection capabilities. Security Guardian enhances these features by capturing Active Directory object state and misconfiguration data in addition to Change Auditor event data. It automates the protection capabilities of Tier 0 objects, ensuring a more comprehensive security approach. Moreover, Security Guardian integrates seamlessly with Change Auditor and On Demand Audit. It allows for the direct invoking of Tier 0 protection templates available in Change Auditor and ensures that relevant events and anomalies are sent from On Demand Audit to Security Guardian, creating a robust and integrated security framework.

SpecterOps BloodHound Enterprise provides Active Directory Tier 0 identification and attack path management. Security Guardian enhances these capabilities by highlighting drifts in Tier 0 objects' known-state, allowing for immediate governance actions to certify or revert changes. It enforces adherence to Privilege Account Management policies by hindering implicit relationships on Tier 0 objects. Security Guardian also collects attack surface configurations on domain controllers, such as the print spooler service, and can immediately disrupt certain Active Directory-based attack paths, like changes in ownership of Tier 0 objects and .DIT attacks. Furthermore, Security Guardian integrates seamlessly with SpecterOps BloodHound Enterprise by utilizing it as a Tier 0 provider. SpecterOps BloodHound Enterprise Tier 0 impact values are surfaced directly on the Security Guardian interface, creating a cohesive and powerful security solution.

Yes! SIEM solutions, like Sentinel and Splunk, aggregate tremendous amounts of signals from various sources to provide comprehensive security monitoring. Security Guardian enhances these solutions by being specifically built for Active Directory. It scans and surfaces identity misconfigurations and exposures related to Active Directory and Tier 0 objects. Security Guardian integrates seamlessly with SIEM tools through direct forwarding of findings via standard APIs, ensuring that all relevant data is included in your SIEM for a more robust and targeted security posture.
Security Guardian uses Generative AI and Machine Learning to strengthen Active Directory (AD) and Entra ID security by identifying patterns, surfacing anomalies, and translating technical signals into actionable insights. It establishes behavioral baselines to detect deviations such as spikes in sign-in failures or unexpected permission changes more accurately. This reduces false positives, highlights critical vulnerabilities, and prioritizes real risks. By combining automation with contextual guidance, Generative AI helps accelerate detection, simplify response, and close expertise gaps to keep your identity infrastructure protected against evolving threats.
Quest Security Guardian enhances your Active Directory (AD) security by providing specialized features that complement Microsoft Copilot for Security. Quest Security Guardian excels at detecting and alerting on specific attacker tools, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) within AD, ensuring comprehensive threat detection. It automatically categorizes and tracks Tier 0 objects to prevent unauthorized changes, and proactively identifies and protects against AD misconfigurations, such as Group Policy Object (GPO) changes and database attacks (.DIT). By integrating with Microsoft Security Copilot, these capabilities are enhanced with AI-driven insights and guided remediation, providing a comprehensive and proactive defense for your hybrid AD environment.
At Quest, your privacy is our priority. When leveraging GenAI and Machine Learning within Security Guardian, we ensure that your data remains secure and private. The data used for AI-driven insights is processed within your own environment, and we do not share your data with third parties. Furthermore, we do not use or access anyone else's data to enhance or train our Machine Learning models—only your data is used to provide relevant insights for your security needs.
Get an evaluation of your AD environment(s) and gain insight into the most actionable issues within it with our free AD security assessment.