11 Real-World Risks Hidden in Active Directory Migrations

Semperis introduces Migrator for Active Directory 2.0, an update aimed at helping organizations move Active Directory environments with confidence and greater operational control.

Semperis argues AI-driven attacks are outpacing identity teams as machine identities outnumber human ones 10:1, and urges building organization-wide cyber resilience around hybrid identity protection before the next crisis.

Shows how Active Directory computer account properties expose OS and service pack levels queryable by any domain user, enabling faster identification of high-risk unpatched Windows assets.

SyncJacking: how attackers can abuse Entra Connect hard matching to take over synchronized Entra ID accounts, including Active Global Administrators — and how to detect and mitigate it.

EntraGoat Scenario 3: how group ownership, role-assignable groups and service principal management chain from a low-privileged user to Global Administrator — plus detection and defense guidance.

This post focuses on obtaining domain administrative privileges from a local administrator or domain user account. Once the initial steps have been taken to obtain local administrative access on a Windows operating system, the natural next steps are to gain domain user and domain administrative privileges.