Vulnerabilities in Active Directory: The CISO’s Achilles Heel

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.

Syncing Domain Admins into Entra ID lets attackers pivot from compromised on-prem AD to the cloud, and back via password writeback. CIS and Microsoft advise keeping privileged admin accounts cloud-only.

SpecterOps argues identity risk now extends beyond Tier Zero, as attackers increasingly use legitimate credentials and trusted relationships to reach backups, regulated data, and other critical workloads.

ADPathFinder extends BloodHound CE by unifying SharpHound with OpenGraph collectors, mapping privilege escalation paths across AD, ADCS, MSSQL, and SCCM plus context-aware password audits.

ForceHound graph data powers two Salesforce scenarios: transitive escalation from a standard user to ModifyAllData via ManageUsers or AssignPermissionSets, plus Connected App exposure analysis.

AD-PathFinder maps attack paths from low-privileged users to Domain Admins using SharpHound and OpenGraph data, natively covering AD, ADCS, SCCM, and MSSQL, including password risk audits.