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Your AD is a stomping ground for lateral movement

Sep 10, 2026 By Lori Cotton In One Identity
Active Directory (AD) is the backbone many enterprises lean on for their IT environments. Yet, most organizations rarely govern the directory with the scrutiny necessary. This was the throughline of a recent webinar with Nitish Deshpande, senior analyst at KuppingerCole, and Robert Kraczek, global strategist at One Identity. The pair made a strong case for mediating admin access to AD, emphasizing just how easily compromised credentials can beget full-blown incidents.
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Top Free Active Directory Management Tools

Sep 6, 2026 By Ian Andersen In Netwrix
Free Active Directory management tools handle lockouts, stale accounts, permissions reporting and bulk changes without a purchase order, and most teams already run several without having picked them deliberately. Each one stops somewhere specific. Knowing where the free editions end, and which gaps close only with a licensed product, decides how the next audit goes.
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The Active Directory Tiered Administration Model Explained

Sep 3, 2026 By Netwrix Team In Netwrix
The Active Directory tiered administration model blocks a common path from credential exposure on a compromised workstation to Domain Admin. It separates privileged accounts and systems by scope of control, then enforces logon boundaries so a privileged credential can authenticate only from an approved system. Dedicated accounts and hardened administrative workstations carry most of the weight. A domain admin signs in to a user's laptop to fix a printer problem.
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Active Directory isn't going away. Your group policy setup might be as brittle as COBOL

Aug 11, 2026 By Dan Piazza In Netwrix
A Reddit thread on r/activedirectory asking whether Active Directory is going away pulled in loads of comments, and the most upvoted answer compared AD to COBOL: still running, still critical, still not going anywhere. That comparison holds up when you check whether COBOL is still used today, since it runs core banking and government systems decades after its supposed retirement. The real risk for most IT teams isn't AD disappearing.
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Complete Guide to Active Directory Management: A Must-Read for Every IT Admin

Jul 31, 2026 By Puja More In miniOrange
It starts like this: a new employee joins, and your IT team jumps in to create an account, assign access, and configure permissions. Soon after, tickets start pouring in for password resets, group changes, and locked accounts. By the end of the week, your admins are juggling hundreds of small but critical identity tasks. That’s the everyday reality for IT teams managing enterprise systems.
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The Real Reason Hackers Target Active Directory First

Jul 21, 2026 By Fidelis Security In Fidelis Security
Active Directory controls access to nearly every application, file, and system in your network. That's exactly why it's the first thing attackers go after. Get privileged access to AD, and an attacker doesn't need to break into ten different systems. They just need one path in, and from there they can move freely, escalate privileges, and sit undetected for weeks. AI is making this worse. Faster reconnaissance, sharper phishing, quicker lateral movement, all pointed straight at identity infrastructure.
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GitProtect.io & Active Directory Integration (LDAP) | User Management Automation

Jul 15, 2026 By GitProtect In GitProtect
User management in GitProtect.io is becoming even simpler! In version 2.4, we introduced direct integration with Active Directory via the LDAP/LDAPS protocol. Streamline your administration and replicate your company's hierarchy in minutes. In this tutorial, you'll learn how to establish a secure AD connection, handle verification certificates, and map AD groups to corresponding roles inside the GitProtect.io console.
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What's new in Active Roles 8.5

Jul 14, 2026 By One Identity In One Identity
Active Roles by One Identity version 8.3 provides several highly requested features to fortify and enrich the integration capabilities of Active Roles. These new features bring unmatched flexibility and security to Active Directory environments, supporting customers where they are today and where they want to go in the future. Watch this short video to find out how these features can help streamline and protect your Active Directory.
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Acronis extends Microsoft 365 protection with Entra ID Backup

Jul 7, 2026 By Lee Pender In Acronis
Attackers have long focused on email and endpoints, but now they are increasingly targeting the identity layer that controls access to those resources. The new approach is subversive and highly effective: By compromising identities, threat actors can gain access to Microsoft 365, SaaS applications, devices and administrative functions without tripping the same alarms that traditional attacks trigger.
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