Active Directory security
Identify, detect, respond to, and recover from Active Directory threats
Why Netwrix for Active Directory security?
Active Directory is a top target for attackers because it controls access to your most critical systems and data. Microsoft estimates that more than 95 million Active Directory accounts are attacked every day. Netwrix secures Active Directory, and its cloud version – Entra ID, from the inside out by uncovering risky configurations, detecting identity-based threats early, and enabling fast recovery to minimize downtime and business impact.
Active Directory security depends on clean configurations, clear visibility, and tight control over access and privileges. Netwrix helps you understand your current Active Directory security posture and prioritize risk mitigation efforts based on what matters most.
Assess your AD and Entra ID security posture
Identify, analyze, and prioritize risks across your Active Directory environment, including misconfigured security policies, excessive privileges, and inactive user and computer accounts. Netwrix helps you focus on the most critical security gaps first, reduce attack paths, and maintain a strong, well-governed AD security posture over time.
Gain clear visibility into who has excessive permissions to sensitive data, Active Directory objects, and other critical IT assets. Netwrix helps you uncover shadow admins, users who can escalate privileges through misconfigurations or inherited rights, so you can remove unnecessary access and block common attack paths.
Assess domain controllers against industry-standard security baselines and controls to identify configuration gaps and reduce exposure. Netwrix helps you strengthen AD infrastructure security proactively, before misconfigurations can be exploited.
Reducing the risk of Active Directory breaches requires safeguards that prevent credential abuse, privilege escalation, and risky configuration changes. Netwrix helps you protect AD by enforcing strong controls around identities, access, and critical directory objects.
Protect Against Identify Theft
Prevent password-based attacks and support compliance requirements by enforcing strong password policies. Netwrix helps you protect credentials from common and advanced password attacks, including techniques that bypass account lockouts, without disrupting productivity.
Privileged credentials are a prime target for attackers because they provide broad access to critical systems and data. Netwrix helps you reduce this risk by eliminating standing privileged accounts and granting time-limited, task-specific access, so admins have just enough privilege to get the job done and nothing more.
Unauthorized or improper changes to privileged accounts, groups, or Group Policy can quickly lead to privilege escalation or domain-wide compromise. Netwrix enables you to block changes to critical AD objects and GPOs, helping you maintain security and operational stability.
Active Directory is mission critical, which makes it a high-value target for attackers. Netwrix helps you detect identity-based threats early, giving your teams the visibility and time they need to investigate and stop attacks before they escalate into a breach.
Control privilege escalation in real time
Changes to group membership, especially in administrative groups, can quickly give attackers or malicious insiders access to critical systems and data. Netwrix alerts you to these changes as they happen, so you can investigate and remediate unauthorized privilege escalation before it causes harm.
Reduce alert noise and focus on real threats. Netwrix uses machine learning to identify suspicious activity, such as unusual logons that may indicate account compromise, and can expose attackers by luring them into interacting with honey tokens.
Attackers rely on stealth to stay undetected, but Netwrix brings their activity into view. It detects techniques such as DCSync, DCShadow, LDAP reconnaissance, Golden Ticket attacks, password spraying, and other advanced threats in real time, enabling rapid response to protect critical systems and data.
Know immediately when domain controller configurations drift from approved baselines. Netwrix alerts you to unexpected changes so you can quickly investigate, remediate, and maintain the integrity of your Active Directory infrastructure.
When an Active Directory security incident occurs, every second matters. Netwrix helps security teams respond quickly by delivering actionable intelligence and automating response to common and high-confidence threats.
Respond to threats instantly
Contain threats quickly with automated response actions such as disabling or locking compromised accounts, resetting passwords individually or in bulk, and escalating incidents to your SIEM, ITSM, or other security platforms.
Get a complete view of each security incident without digging through raw or cryptic event logs. Netwrix shows exactly what happened, how it happened, which systems or accounts were affected, and who was involved, so you can make informed decisions and respond effectively.
Minimize business disruption with fast AD recovery
Understand exactly how a security incident occurred by reviewing detailed change history and context. Netwrix helps you apply those insights to strengthen Active Directory security and reduce the likelihood of similar incidents happening again.
Result: Active Directory remains secure, resilient, and compliant. Identity-based threats are detected early, contained quickly, and recovered from with minimal business impact.