MFA for Active Directory: An Overview

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.

Password spraying tries a few common passwords across many accounts to evade lockouts, targeting VPNs, Citrix gateways, and Entra ID tenants. Defenses include MFA and passwordless; DSP can detect it.

Hybrid attacks pivot between Entra ID and on-prem AD; Microsoft flagged a broken barrier between on-prem and cloud admin. Shows how DSP detects and auto-remediates changes across both environments.

Four reasons to improve Entra ID recoverability: widespread misconfigurations, the recycle bin's limited 30-day protection, hard-deleted objects like service principals, and hybrid attack-path gaps.

Hybrid identity attacks can wipe cloud-only objects Azure AD won't replicate. Semperis Recovery for Azure AD restores users, groups, and roles, even hard-deleted ones, to speed cyber recovery.

Covers hybrid identity risks—SolarWinds-style attacks pivot from on-prem AD into Azure AD—and recommends MFA plus AD Pass-through Authentication over legacy ADFS to shrink the attack surface.