Welcome to the first in our three-part blog post series on Microsoft Active Directory data backup and recovery. This series will explore the criticality of AD in your resilience strategy and considerations for protection. Let’s begin with an introduction of why AD is so important.
Ransomware has become a perpetual game of cat and mouse. As IT and security teams strive to stay one step ahead, threat actors ruthlessly mine for new methods, means, and vectors for their exploits. Their latest focus is AD. As a core element of centralized management, AD has become a primary target and pathway to execute ransomware attacks. Now more than ever, it’s critical that today’s businesses consider AD protection in their overarching security and ransomware response strategies.
Les clés du château
Outils d’authentification largement adoptés par les petites, moyennes et grandes entreprises, Microsoft AD et Entra ID sont les gardiens des processus d’autorisation pour les réseaux, les applications et les environnements. AD est le pivot de l’accès au système et gère un ensemble en constante évolution d’utilisateurs, de groupes, de stratégies et d’autorisations d’applications.
While AD simplifies the administration of access to key systems, it can be particularly challenging to secure as it holds the keys to an organization’s most crown jewels – its infrastructure and data. It also has become a data protection blind spot for many organizations. One misconfiguration, leaked password, or dormant account can enable a bad actor to elevate privileges and steal, corrupt, or deny access to critical applications and their data.
De nombreuses tâches au sein des entreprises dépendent d’AD pour permettre aux employés d’accéder aux systèmes métier critiques qui sont indispensables à la génération de chiffre d’affaires, à la prise en charge des patients, au maintien des opérations de production et au soutien des initiatives à but non lucratif. Sans AD, les activités de l’entreprise seraient paralysées.
Propagation d’une attaque
Experts are finding AD is playing a key and increasingly larger role in executing attacks. In fact, une étude menée par EMA Research showed that 50% of organizations experienced an attack on AD/Entra ID in the last one to two years. By exploiting blind spots, bad actors can compromise privileged accounts, mimic authorized users, and silently traverse infrastructure, workstations, and applications to establish their foothold. Failing to safeguard AD enables attackers with a centralized location to control and sever access to critical business assets.
L’aide de Commvault
Pour protéger Active Directory contre les ransomwares, il faut disposer d’outils spécialement conçus pour la reprise après sinistre. Et bien que certaines entreprises aient développé leurs propres solutions, celles-ci demandent beaucoup de temps en termes de maintenance, de mise à jour et d’administration. Avec Commvault Cloud, vous bénéficiez d’une protection dédiée et centralisée pour Microsoft Active Directory et Entra ID, qui vous aide à restaurer rapidement vos données.
Frequent backups enable users to undo damaging and unwanted changes to objects and attributes, including users, groups, app registrations, and more. Fast, granular recovery options allow administrators to view what’s changed in their environment and easily recover missing, damaged, or misconfigured items to thwart ongoing attacks.
Visit Commvault.com/platform/Active Directory to learn more about how Commvault helps safeguard AD against corruption, accidental deletion, or malicious attacks.
