Purple Knight or PingCastle? A Quick Comparison

When it comes to protecting your enterprise from cyberattacks, protecting your identity infrastructure is key. Infiltrations of identity systems not only expose your most important assets and business operations to attack but can go undetected for long periods,...

Digital Identity Management with Julie Smith

“[Identity management] is a complex space that just keeps growing and growing,” notes Julie Smith, Executive Director of the Identity Defined Security Alliance. “Organizations are struggling with figuring out how to deal with it and protect their resources.” Julie...

Protecting Public Safety with Purple Knight

“As a public safety entity, we seem to be a target for criminal activity,” said Micah Clark, Information Technology Director at Central Utah 911 and a user of Purple Knight, a free Active Directory security assessment tool from Semperis. “Making sure that our Active...

Identity Attack Watch: August 2022

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...

SMTP Matching Abuse in Azure AD

In his TROOPERS19 talk (“I’m in your cloud … reading everyone’s email”), Dirk-jan Mollema discussed an issue he discovered that enabled the use of SMTP matching (also called soft matching) to synchronize Active Directory (AD) users to Azure AD, with the goal of...