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.
Le chiavi del castello
In quanto strumenti di autenticazione ampiamente adottati dalle piccole, medie e grandi imprese, Microsoft AD ed Entra ID fungono da guardiani dei processi di autorizzazione per reti, applicazioni e ambienti. AD è il fulcro dell’accesso al sistema e gestisce un insieme in continua evoluzione di utenti, gruppi, criteri e autorizzazioni delle applicazioni.
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.
Numerosi carichi di lavoro all’interno delle aziende dipendono da AD per garantire ai dipendenti l’accesso a sistemi aziendali critici, essenziali per generare ricavi, fornire assistenza ai pazienti, mantenere le operazioni di produzione e sostenere iniziative senza scopo di lucro. Senza AD, le operazioni aziendali si fermerebbero completamente.
Diffusione di un attacco
Experts are finding AD is playing a key and increasingly larger role in executing attacks. In fact, uno studio condotto da 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.
Come ci aiuta Commva Commvault
Per proteggere Active Directory (AD) dal ransomware sono necessari strumenti appositamente progettati per il ripristino a seguito di attacchi. E sebbene alcune aziende abbiano sviluppato soluzioni interne, la loro manutenzione, aggiornamento e amministrazione richiedono molto tempo. Con Commvault Cloud, si ottiene una protezione dedicata e integrata per Microsoft AD ed Entra ID, che consente di ripristinare rapidamente i dati.
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.
