🟣 Purple Knight by Semperis
Purple Knight is a powerful Active Directory security and identity protection solution offered by Semperis. The platform is designed to help organizations assess, secure, and monitor their Active Directory (AD) environments to mitigate the risk of identity-based attacks and ensure the integrity of their IT infrastructure.
🔍 Overview
- Company: Semperis
- Product: Purple Knight
- Type: Active Directory Security & Identity Protection
- Focus:
- Protecting Active Directory environments from security risks
- Identifying vulnerabilities in AD configurations
- Detecting identity-based attacks (e.g., privilege escalation)
- Security monitoring and incident response for AD
- Continuous compliance with industry standards
🧩 Core Offerings
🔐 Active Directory Security Assessment
- Comprehensive security assessment of Active Directory configurations
- Identifies security vulnerabilities and misconfigurations in AD
- Provides actionable recommendations for improving security posture
- Focuses on critical AD elements such as user permissions, Group Policy, and Kerberos configurations
🛡️ Identity Protection & Attack Detection
- Detects privilege escalation attempts and suspicious activities in AD
- Monitors user and group behaviors to identify anomalous actions
- Alerts for potential identity-based attacks, including lateral movement and pass-the-hash
- Provides forensic insights to investigate potential incidents
📊 Reporting & Compliance
- Continuous security posture reporting for Active Directory
- Provides detailed reports for compliance with standards such as NIST, CIS, and GDPR
- Tracks security risks and vulnerabilities over time
- Offers executive-level dashboards and detailed technical reports
🚨 Threat Hunting & Incident Response
- Real-time monitoring of Active Directory and identity-related activities
- Tools for proactive threat hunting and incident response
- Integration with SIEM systems for enhanced detection and response workflows
- Root cause analysis and remediation guidance for AD-related incidents
🚨 Use Cases
- Active Directory Security: Secure and harden Active Directory environments against common threats like privilege escalation and Kerberos attacks
- Incident Detection: Detect identity-related attacks, unauthorized access attempts, and misconfigurations in real time
- Compliance Reporting: Ensure compliance with security standards and frameworks (e.g., NIST, CIS, GDPR)
- Identity Protection: Protect against attacks targeting Active Directory, which is often the most critical point of failure in organizations
🔗 Integrations
- SIEM: Splunk, IBM QRadar, Elastic Stack
- Identity & Access Management (IAM): Okta, Microsoft Azure AD
- Endpoint Security: CrowdStrike, SentinelOne, Microsoft Defender
- Incident Response: Palo Alto Cortex XSOAR, ServiceNow
- Cloud Platforms: AWS, Azure
📚 Resources
- Official Website
- Purple Knight Overview
- Purple Knight Documentation
- Semperis Blog
- Purple Knight in Action (Webinar)
🧪 Licensing & Deployment
- Deployment: On-premises or hybrid cloud deployment
- Licensing: Subscription-based, with pricing based on the number of Active Directory objects and level of support required
- Free Trial: Available for evaluation purposes
- Scalability: Scalable to enterprise-level Active Directory environments
🔁 Related
- Active Directory Security
- Identity Protection
- Zero Trust Architecture
- Privileged Access Management (PAM)
- Incident Response
- SIEM Integration
- Identity and Access Management (IAM)
🏷️ Tags
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