Directory Security
Secure Active Directory and Entra ID from assessment through recovery.
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Active Directory remains foundational to identity infrastructure and a primary target in ransomware and identity-based attacks.
Hidden attack paths
Misconfigurations, service account exposure, and delegation risks create exploitable privilege paths that increase attack surface.
Access creep over time
Manual provisioning and infrequent review allow users and groups to accumulate access that no longer aligns to business need.
Extended attacker dwell time
The average attacker spends over 100 days in an environment before detection, often moving laterally through AD without visibility.
High-impact recovery scenarios
When AD fails, authentication, applications, and operations are disrupted. Recovery must be controlled and reliable.
Use cases
Secure your directory across risk assessment, detection, governance, and recovery.
AD risk assessment
Run automated scans across your Active Directory environment to detect 170+ attack-relevant risks, including service accounts, unconstrained delegation, weak password policies, and more. Each finding is risk-scored based on real-world exploitability and mapped to MITRE ATT&CK and ANSSI techniques, with prescriptive remediation guidance.
AD attack path assessment
Surface the exact misconfigurations and privilege paths attackers depend on before credentials are abused. Prioritized findings replace generic checklists and help teams focus on the exposures most likely to be exploited.
AD change auditing
Capture every change made to users, groups, GPOs, OUs, permissions, and schema with full before-and-after values. Maintain a complete forensic timeline so suspicious changes cannot disappear into operational noise. Built-in compliance reporting supports SOX, HIPAA, PCI DSS, GDPR, and NIST.
Identity and group lifecycle management
Automate the full joiner-mover-leaver lifecycle with policy-driven provisioning, dynamic membership rules, time-bound access, self-service request workflows with approval chains, and scheduled access certifications. Deprovision access automatically across directories and connected systems when employees leave.
Granular directory recovery
Surgically restore individual attributes, users, groups, or organizational units across AD, Entra ID, and Okta without affecting healthy objects. Recover precisely what changed in targeted incident scenarios.
Automated AD forest recovery
For catastrophic AD forest failure, replace manual recovery documentation and scripting with a guided, repeatable recovery process that can be executed accurately under crisis conditions.
The Netwrix approach
Integrated directory security across risk, governance, and recovery.
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Close the loop across the entire directory security lifecycle
Netwrix Directory Security brings together risk assessment, change auditing, lifecycle governance, and recovery across Active Directory, Entra ID, and Okta. Security teams gain prioritized visibility into exploitable risks, complete audit trails of directory activity, automated enforcement of least privilege, and reliable recovery capabilities. The result is reduced attack surface, improved compliance readiness, and faster restoration when incidents occur.
Reduce attack surface
Identify and prioritize exploitable Active Directory risks tied to real attack techniques so security teams can focus remediation efforts where they matter most.
Continuous change visibility
Capture every critical directory change with full context and retain a searchable audit trail to support investigations and compliance reporting.
Enforced least privilege
Automate lifecycle governance, delegated approvals, and access certifications to prevent privilege creep and keep permissions aligned with business roles.
Resilient recovery
Restore objects, attributes, or entire forests through guided recovery processes designed to reduce downtime and operational disruption.
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