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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 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
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 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 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
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 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 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.