Attivo Networks announced today a new white paper from Aite-Novarica Group that recognizes the leadership Attivo Networks demonstrates in Active Directory protection.
The paper, entitled, “Zero Trust Starts with Identity – Protecting Active Directory,” highlights identity as an escalating area of attack compromise. The report calls out Active Directory as the central platform for managing identities and privileges, making it “…ground zero for the zero-trust movement.” It notes Active Directory weaknesses as the primary reason it has become a high-value attack target: “it is widely misunderstood, largely unprotected, and a perfect complement to ransomware.”
The paper’s analysis confirms that beyond ensuring basic Active Directory hygiene, IT and security executives should look for key capabilities when selecting technology to prevent and detect AD vulnerabilities, threats, and attacks. These capabilities include high visibility for AD vulnerabilities and exposures, detection of live attacks, and discovery of misconfigurations.
“There are inherent holes in traditional protection systems that don’t provide visibility to credential exposures, cloud entitlement overprovisioning, and Active Directory exposures and vulnerabilities,” said Srikant Vissamsetti, SVP, engineering at Attivo Networks. “Attivo stands out in this paper as a strong leader with a broad solution portfolio purpose-built for extensive, continuous assessment of Active Directory exposures and vulnerabilities, and a unique ability to detect in-depth live attacks.”
Five global solution providers are represented in this paper: Attivo Networks, Crowdstrike, Qomplx, Microsoft and Tenable. The paper includes vendor profiles, strengths and weaknesses and a brief description of their solution portfolio. In addition, a comprehensive comparison table of the vendors’ solutions reflects how they identify potential threats before they occur, and spot attacks and problems as they are happening in real-time.
