5 Essential ITDR Steps CISOs Must Know

Just as the impact of cyberattacks is not confined to the IT department, the role of the CISO has expanded beyond the security team. With organizations and analysts now acknowledging that identity ...

Why Recovering Active Directory from a Cyberattack Is an Essential Component of ITDR

A plan for recovering Active Directory (AD) should be a priority for your identity threat detection and response (ITDR) plan. After all, we live in a federated world of hybrid identities, zero-touch ...

Operational Resilience: More than Disaster Recovery

To contend with the explosion of cybercrime and its impact on business operations, many organizations are updating their disaster recovery plans to include cyber incident response. Many of the processes and guidelines ...

Identity Threat Response with Brian Desmond

Identity threat response—the initial aspect of ITDR—is gaining importance as cyberattackers continue to find new ways into victims’ environments. I recently spoke with Brian Desmond, Principal at Ravenswood Technology Group, about his ...

Organizations Prioritize ITDR Solutions That Protect Active Directory Before, During, and After a Cyberattack

The word is out that identity systems—and Active Directory in particular—are prime targets for cyberattacks. As a company that pioneered solutions purpose-built for protecting and recovering Active Directory from cyberattacks, we were ...

Revisiting the Colonial Pipeline Cyberattack, One Year Later

The Colonial Pipeline cyberattack in May 2021 ranks as one of the top critical infrastructure attacks to date. At the time, Semperis Director of Services Sean Deuby predicted that the ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) ...

Combatting a BlackCat Ransomware Active Directory Attack

The FBI has released FBI Flash CU-000167-MW warning that BlackCat/ALPHV ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) group has compromised at least 60 entities globally. As with the majority of cyberattacks, BlackCat/ALPHV’s end game is an Active ...

Semperis Chief Technologist Guido Grillenmeier Speaks at 18th German IT Security Congress

Guido Grillenmeier, Semperis Chief Technologist, will contribute a presentation, “Combating an ongoing attack on an identity system,” at the 18th German IT Security Congress, an event hosted by the German Federal Office ...

EMA Report: Unknown AD Vulnerabilities Emerge as Top Security Concern

Unknown vulnerabilities are the top Active Directory security concern of IT security practitioners, according to a new report from Enterprise Management Associates (EMA). Known but unaddressed AD vulnerabilities fall closely behind. Most ...
Sean Deuby and Alexandra Weaver Semperis Hybrid Identity Protection Conference 2021

6 Take-Aways from HIP Global Conference 2021

The chat boxes were on fire and Twitter was buzzing during the recent Hybrid Identity Protection Conference 2021, where the identity and security community gathered to grapple with current-day challenges and prepare ...