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Active Directory (AD) is the backbone of your organization, providing authentication and authorization for every critical resource across your environment. Therefore, you must manage AD as a security asset, not just as infrastructure.

Whether you’re running AD, Azure AD or a hybrid AD environment, Quest is the go-to software vendor for everything Microsoft. With Quest, you have one partner and one set of Active Directory tools to address all of your AD migration, management and cybersecurity resilience needs.

With more than 20 years’ experience, 184 million accounts managed, 166 million accounts audited and 95 million accounts migrated, Quest is the clear leader when it comes to Active Directory.

AD accounts managed
accounts audited
AD accounts migrated

Your go-to Active Directory migration and consolidation solution

As mergers and acquisitions increase, AD consolidation and restructuring is becoming more complex. You must plan carefully so that you don’t miss key dependencies or overlook critical resources and user groups that must be migrated.
ZeroIMPACT AD migration, consolidation and restructuring

ZeroIMPACT AD migration, consolidation and restructuring

Restructure and consolidate your AD during business hours with no downtime or service disruption. True coexistence maintains seamless user access to all network resources, regardless of their migration status.
Read White Paper: IT Integration Best Practices in Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A)
Watch Webcast: On-Demand Webcast: Best Practices to Avoid Common Active Directory Migration Mistakes
Read Case Study: Avera Health improves care with seamless AD migration

Featured Products

Migration Manager for Active Directory

Ensure true coexistence while restructuring Active Directory

Secure Copy

Get a fast and easy automated solution for migrating data, shares, printers and more with security

Your go-to Active Directory management solution

Quest Active Directory management solutions automate a wide range of everyday tasks to save you save time and money while minimizing security risks. The breadth of our portfolio is unmatched.

AD account management

AD account lifecycle management

AD account lifecycle management

Automate critical identity administration tasks, such as provisioning, de-provisioning, group management, and identity lifecycle management across your entire hybrid AD environment. Synchronize user accounts from AD across Unix, Linux and Mac OS.

Read E-book: Unified hybrid Active Directory

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Active Roles

Secure and automate the administration, access and provisioning of users and groups for AD/AzureAD

Safeguard Authentication Services

Leverage AD bridging to unify policy-based management across Unix, Linux, and Mac systems

Group Policy management

Group Policy management

Group Policy management

Automate key GPO management tasks, eliminating time-intensive manual processes. Quickly administer changes to GPOs to support change management best practices, enable approval-based workflows and secure your critical data. You can also easily verify, compare, update and roll back GPO versions over time to confirm the consistency of various GPO settings.
Watch Webcast: How Insecure GPOs Create Real Attack Paths in AD
Read White Paper: Governing GPOs with a Layered Security Framework

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GPOADmin

Control and simplify Group Policy management.

AD health and availability

AD health and availability

AD health and availability

Proactively ensure the health and performance of AD. Quickly identify the root cause of problems with troubleshooting and diagnostics tools that monitor AD performance to help maintain user productivity. Graphically map all AD attack paths, enabling you to easily prioritize and eliminate the most vital avenues that attackers can exploit and protect the availability of your directory. See system data in an easy-to-understand, visual interface that eliminates the learning curve.
Read White Paper: Keeping Active Directory Healthy and Fine-Tuned
Read E-book: Managing the economic and operational costs of Active Directory
Watch Webcast: How Insecure GPOs Create Real Attack Paths in AD

Featured Products

Active Administrator for Active Directory Health

Ensure the health and availability of AD with troubleshooting and diagnostics tools.

SpecterOps BloodHound Enterprise

Identify, quantify and prioritize attack paths so you can secure Active Directory from every angle.

Hybrid AD group management

Hybrid AD group management

Hybrid AD group management

Get full control of Azure AD, Office 365 and hybrid AD groups across your organization — all in a single application — to mitigate security and compliance risks caused by group sprawl and access creep.

  • Prevent group sprawl with creation policies
  • Enable user self-service while maintaining order through a pre-selected policy framework for group creation, naming, attestation, expiration, etc.
  • Easily enforce rules as groups are created via a self-service UI
Read E-book: Frequently Asked Questions: Office 365 Groups
Read E-book: How to Clean Up Your AD, Azure AD and Office 365 Groups
Read E-book: Four Best Practices for Hybrid Active Directory Group Management

Your go-to Active Directory security solution

Strengthen your cyber resilience against the next hybrid Active Directory security threat with go-to solutions that enable you to secure your internal environment as tightly as your perimeter and ensure continuous regulatory compliance.

Governance

Governance

Governance

It’s fairly easy for a disgruntled or careless privileged user to wreak havoc since everything relies on Active Directory. If AD is down, your entire network is down. It’s clear that proper governance is key to preventing breaches and effectively mitigating insider threats. Quest solutions help automate administration tasks, including user provisioning and deprovisioning, to close security holes and reduce risk. Approval-based workflows add an extra layer of governance and control.

  • Simplify user and group administration
  • Tightly control privileged access
  • Safely manage GPOs with approval-based workflow
Read E-book: Enhancing Active Directory Security and Lateral Movement Security
Read White Paper: How to implement NIST, ESAE and Red Forest Cybersecurity Principles in Active Directory
Read White Paper: Governing GPOs with a Layered Security Framework

Featured Products

GPOADmin

Control and simplify Group Policy management.

Active Roles

Secure and automate the administration, access and provisioning of users and groups for AD/AzureAD

Identify exposure

Identify exposure

Identify exposure

Timely Active Directory reporting is a key component to thwarting insider attacks on your AD. With Quest solutions you can get consolidated reporting across on-prem, hybrid or cloud environments. Easily determine user access and right-size permissions directly from the reports. You can also graphically map all AD attack paths, enabling you to easily prioritize and eliminate the most vital avenues that attackers can exploit.

  • Consolidated reporting in a single view
  • Continuous AD attack path monitoring and prioritization
  • On-the-spot remediation
Watch Webcast: How Insecure GPOs Create Real Attack Paths in AD
Read E-book: Top Seven Reports for Supporting a Growing Virtual Workforce
Read Technical Brief: Improve Your Security Posture with Enterprise Reporter for Active Directory

Featured Products

SpecterOps BloodHound Enterprise

Identify, quantify and prioritize attack paths so you can secure Active Directory from every angle.

IT Security Search

Easily correlate disparate IT data into an interactive search engine.

Detect and alert

Detect & alert

Detect and alert

Sound the alarm faster on potential threats to your AD by providing real-time auditing of user activity and alerts on suspicious/anomalous activity. Proactive security measures enable you to take immediate action and reduce the risk of exposure caused by insider attacks or data breaches.

  • Complete auditing and change prevention
  • Real-time alerts and response actions
  • Smart, scalable event log compression

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On Demand Audit

Search and investigate changes made on prem or in the cloud from a single, hosted dashboard.

InTrust

Securely collect, store and receive event data from Windows, Unix and Linux systems

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Investigate and recover

Investigate and recover

Investigate and recover

When an incident occurs, you need to be able to quickly investigate the root cause and recover your AD to maintain business continuity. Get to the bottom of security incidents with centralized data collection and a Google-like forensic search engine. Moreover, you can build a virtual test lab for DR planning and accelerate disaster recovery – from bare metal provisioning through forest recovery.

  • Google-like search and forensic investigation
  • Granular search and restore
  • Virtual test lab for DR planning
  • Complete backup and recovery – on-prem, hybrid or cloud

Featured Products

Recovery Manager for Active Directory Disaster Recovery Edition

Complete AD disaster recovery at the object, directory and OS level across the entire forest

On Demand Recovery

SaaS solution for fast, secure Azure AD and Office 365 backup and recovery.

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Prove compliance

Prove compliance

Prove compliance

AD issues can result in unplanned and costly network downtime. Harmful data breaches and non-compliance with regulations can result in hefty fines as well. Quest solutions enable you to establish, maintain and demonstrate compliance with a wide range of regulations. Plus, Quest solutions offer smart, scalable log compression, so you can store your audit data cost-effectively for years while ensuring it is available for security investigations and audit checks.
Read White Paper: Key Strategies for Meeting GDPR Compliance Requirements
Read White Paper: A Practical Guide for GDPR Compliance

Featured Products

InTrust

Securely collect, store and receive event data from Windows, Unix and Linux systems

Recovery Manager for Active Directory Disaster Recovery Edition

Complete AD disaster recovery at the object, directory and OS level across the entire forest

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Related Platforms

Office 365
Teams
SharePoint
OneDrive for Business

Resources

On-Demand Webcast: Best Practices to Avoid Common Active Directory Migration Mistakes
On Demand Webcast
On-Demand Webcast: Best Practices to Avoid Common Active Directory Migration Mistakes
On-Demand Webcast: Best Practices to Avoid Common Active Directory Migration Mistakes
Mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures are common business activities that can have a huge impact on your Microsoft 365 tenant. These events come with complicated legal maneuvers and rigid timelines.
Watch Webcast
Be Prepared for Ransomware Attacks with Active Directory Disaster Recovery Planning
White Paper
Be Prepared for Ransomware Attacks with Active Directory Disaster Recovery Planning
Be Prepared for Ransomware Attacks with Active Directory Disaster Recovery Planning
Reduce your organization’s risk with an effective Active Directory recovery strategy.
Read White Paper
Colonial Pipeline Ransomware and MITRE ATT&CK Tactic TA0040
On Demand Webcast
Colonial Pipeline Ransomware and MITRE ATT&CK Tactic TA0040
Colonial Pipeline Ransomware and MITRE ATT&CK Tactic TA0040
Ransomware attacks are exploiting Active Directory. This security-expert-led webcast explores a 3-prong defense against them.
Watch Webcast
M&A IT Integration Checklist: Active Directory
Technical Brief
M&A IT Integration Checklist: Active Directory
M&A IT Integration Checklist: Active Directory
If your organization is involved in a merger and acquisition, the impending IT integration project might seem overwhelming.
Read Technical Brief
Nine Best Practices to Improve Active Directory Security and Cyber Resilience
E-book
Nine Best Practices to Improve Active Directory Security and Cyber Resilience
Nine Best Practices to Improve Active Directory Security and Cyber Resilience
This ebook explores the anatomy of an AD insider threat and details the best defense strategies against it.
Read E-book
Five Ways to Secure Your Group Policy
E-book
Five Ways to Secure Your Group Policy
Five Ways to Secure Your Group Policy
Discover how to dramatically improve security by ensuring proper GPO governance.
Read E-book
Protect Your Active Directory from Ransomware using the NIST Cybersecurity Framework
On Demand Webcast
Protect Your Active Directory from Ransomware using the NIST Cybersecurity Framework
Protect Your Active Directory from Ransomware using the NIST Cybersecurity Framework
Learn guidance on how to identify, protect, detect, respond to, and recover from ransomware cyberattacks.
Watch Webcast
Seven Steps to Surviving the Active Directory Retirement Crisis
Infographic
Seven Steps to Surviving the Active Directory Retirement Crisis
Seven Steps to Surviving the Active Directory Retirement Crisis
This infographic offers seven valuable tips to help your organization prepare for the impending Active Directory retirement crisis.
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Blogs

The anatomy of Active Directory attacks

The anatomy of Active Directory attacks

Learn the most common Active Directory attacks, how they unfold and what steps organizations can take to mitigate their risk.

Jason Morano 26 Sep 2022
8 ways to secure your Active Directory environment

8 ways to secure your Active Directory environment

Taking the right steps to secure your Active Directory has never been more critical. Learn 8 Active Directory security best practices to reduce your risk.

Bryan Patton 27 Jun 2022
Active Directory forest: What it is and best practices for managing it

Active Directory forest: What it is and best practices for managing it

Active Directory forest is a critical — but often underappreciated — element of the IT infrastructure. Learn what it is and how to manage it.

Fouad Hamdi 03 Jun 2022
Active Directory disaster recovery: Creating an airtight strategy

Active Directory disaster recovery: Creating an airtight strategy

Businesses cannot operate without Active Directory up and running. Learn why and how to develop a comprehensive Active Directory disaster recovery strategy.

Brian Hymer 20 Apr 2022
5 Active Directory migration best practices

5 Active Directory migration best practices

Active Directory delivers key authentication services so it’s critical for migrations to go smoothly. Learn 5 Active Directory migration best practices.

Becky Cross 16 Feb 2022
Active Directory security groups: What they are and how they improve security

Active Directory security groups: What they are and how they improve security

Active Directory security groups play a critical role in controlling access to your vital systems and data. Learn how they work.

Matthew Vinton 22 Feb 2022

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