DirectoryShield
Comprehensive protection for active directory resources
DirectoryShield
Comprehensive protection for active directory resources
Trusted defence for privileged accounts
Securing critical access, preventing breaches and maintaining control
In an increasingly complex and cloud-first world, securing privileged access to on-premises resources is critical. DirectoryShield is a cutting-edge Privileged Access Management solution designed to protect your on-premises Active Directory resources. Powered by Microsoft Entra, DirectoryShield safeguards administrative accounts with advanced, phish-resistant authentication and just-in-time access controls, effectively reducing vulnerability to threats.
With DirectoryShield, privileged accounts are isolated within a separate, highly secure forest, leveraging native Microsoft technologies from Active Directory Domain Services and Entra ID. This seamless integration with Microsoft’s infrastructure enhances security without the need for additional software, ensuring robust, scalable protection for your organisation.
Our approach
Our phased delivery approach ensures that each key component of the solution is delivered in a structured and efficient manner. This approach allows for thorough design, deployment and testing of each component, ensuring a robust and secure implementation.
PHASE 1
Tenant design
The security configuration of a new PAM tenant will be hardened to prevent external collaboration, prevent app consent, limit standard users, and enforce strong authentication.
PHASE 2
PAM forest design and implementation
Configuring and securing a Microsoft Active Directory Forest that will contain the user accounts acting as administrators for the production Active Directory. The Forest will be locked down with group policy to limit access, with additional security steps to be taken in future phases.
PHASE 3
Privileged access workstation design and implementation
Privileged Access Workstations will be configured and secured for the administration of the PAM Tenant and Forest. These workstations will ensure secure access for PAM administrators.
PHASE 4
Deploy monitoring
Configuring and securing monitoring for the PAM solution. Effective monitoring will provide visibility into the security and performance of the PAM environment.
PHASE 5
Deploy privileged access management to production
Operationalising the PAM solution. This includes deploying the solution to the production environment and ensuring it is fully functional and secure.
Benefits that go beyond basic protection
Enhanced security
DirectoryShield strengthens the security of your on-premises Active Directory by separating administrative accounts and enforcing modern phish-resistant authentication methods.
Seamless integration
DirectoryShield uses native Microsoft technologies, ensuring compatibility and ease of implementation without the need for additional software.
Just-in-time privileged elevation
By providing just-in-time privileged elevation, DirectoryShield reduces the risk of unauthorised access and ensures that administrative privileges are granted only when necessary.
Comprehensive protection
DirectoryShield abstracts privileged accounts into a separate, highly secure forest, applying the strongest modern security controls to protect against sophisticated attacks.
Improved visibility and control
Real-time monitoring and reporting capabilities provide visibility into who has access to critical resources and what actions they perform.
Scalability and flexibility
Built on the Microsoft Entra platform, DirectoryShield can scale with your organisation’s evolving needs, ensuring consistent protection as you grow.
Enhanced Security
Safeguard your systems and data by managing access to enterprise resources effectively. Verify user identities and grant appropriate access levels to ensure a secure workplace environment.
Seamless User Experience
Provide a convenient and user-friendly authentication process, reducing friction and enhancing end-user satisfaction. Move beyond passwords and adopt modern authentication methods, such as multi-factor authentication (MFA) and biometrics.
Adaptability
Stay ahead of evolving threats and rapidly expanding access points. Our solutions enable you to manage access across diverse environments, including on-premises, multi-cloud, multi-platform, and third-party systems.
Comprehensive Access Control
Microsoft Entra provides a complete toolset to secure access for everyone and everything in multi-cloud and multiplatform environments. It allows you to protect access to every app and resource, enabling single sign-on, conditional access, and multi-factor authentication (MFA) to reduce risk and resist phishing attempts.
Enhanced Identity Protection
Secure and verify every identity, whether it's a human user, an external partner, or an application. Microsoft Entra employs advanced identity protection measures, such as risk detection and remediation, to prevent compromised identities from being abused.
Connected Intelligence
Investigate risky users and sign-ins and detect security alerts in real-time, correlating them with other Microsoft solutions for comprehensive investigations, to gain valuable insights. With automated remediation options, our solution ensures proactive protection against emerging vulnerabilities, keeping your organisation secure.
Plus, explore more features
Microsoft Entra also provides additional features, such as application management, authentication management, business-to-business (B2B) collaboration, privileged identity management, and more. These features offer comprehensive identity governance, enhanced monitoring capabilities, and seamless integration with Microsoft services, aligning with the Essential 8 requirements for robust information protection and security.
Protect access to any app / resource
Safeguard your organisation by implementing robust measures to protect access to every app and resource, ensuring that only authorised users can gain entry.
Ensure Trustworthy Identities
Secure and verify every identity within your ecosystem, whether it's an employee, customer, partner, application, device, or workload, across diverse environments and platforms.
Grant Only Essential Access
Discover and optimise permissions, manage access lifecycles, and enforce the principle of least privilege, granting individuals only the necessary level of access to perform their roles effectively, aligned with Essential 8 principles.
Enhance User Experience
Simplify the access experience for your users, offering seamless and user-friendly sign-in processes, intelligent security measures, and a unified administration interface that minimises complexity.
Benefits that go beyond
basic protection
Protect access to any app / resource
Safeguard your organisation by implementing robust measures to protect access to every app and resource, ensuring that only authorised users can gain entry.
Enhanced security
DirectoryShield strengthens the security of your on-premises Active Directory by separating administrative accounts and enforcing modern phish-resistant authentication methods.
Just-in-time privileged elevation
By providing just-in-time privileged elevation, DirectoryShield reduces the risk of unauthorised access and ensures that administrative privileges are granted only when necessary.
Scalability and flexibility
Built on the Microsoft Entra platform, DirectoryShield can scale with your organisation’s evolving needs, ensuring consistent protection as you grow.
Seamless integration
DirectoryShield uses native Microsoft technologies, ensuring compatibility and ease of implementation without the need for additional software.
Improved visibility and control
Real-time monitoring and reporting capabilities provide visibility into who has access to critical resources and what actions they perform.
DirectoryShield abstracts privileged accounts into a separate, highly secure forest, applying the strongest modern security controls to protect against sophisticated attacks.
Comprehensive protection
In today's fast-paced digital world, protecting sensitive data is crucial for businesses to safeguard themselves against cyber-attacks and data breaches. However, implementing Information Protection solutions can be a challenging due to lack of adoption and poor change management, which can render security measures ineffective.
Operationalising
Information Protection
In today's fast-paced digital world, protecting sensitive data is crucial for businesses to safeguard themselves against cyber-attacks and data breaches. However, implementing Information Protection solutions can be a challenging due to lack of adoption and poor change management, which can render security measures ineffective.
Operationalising
Information Protection
Speak to us and find out how DirectoryShield can strengthen your Active Directory defences and give you confidence in your security posture.
Speak to us and find out how DirectoryShield can strengthen your Active Directory defences and give you confidence in your security posture.
Addressing key challenges
Threat actors frequently target privileged accounts to exploit vulnerabilities and gain unauthorised access, and traditional security measures often fall short against these sophisticated attacks. DirectoryShield addresses these risks by isolating privileged accounts within a highly secure forest and implementing advanced, just-in-time access controls. Designed to meet the specific needs of on-premises Active Directory resources, this Microsoft Entra-powered solution delivers a streamlined, scalable PAM strategy that bridges the gap between legacy security requirements and modern access management.
Addressing key challenges
Threat actors frequently target privileged accounts to exploit vulnerabilities and gain unauthorised access, and traditional security measures often fall short against these sophisticated attacks. DirectoryShield addresses these risks by isolating privileged accounts within a highly secure forest and implementing advanced, just-in-time access controls. Designed to meet the specific needs of on-premises Active Directory resources, this Microsoft Entra-powered solution delivers a streamlined, scalable PAM strategy that bridges the gap between legacy security requirements and modern access management.
Benefits that go beyond basic protection
Comprehensive protection
DirectoryShield abstracts privileged accounts into a separate, highly secure forest, applying the strongest modern security controls to protect against sophisticated attacks.
Improved visibility and control
Real-time monitoring and reporting capabilities provide visibility into who has access to critical resources and what actions they perform.
Scalability and flexibility
Built on the Microsoft Entra platform, DirectoryShield can scale with your organisation’s evolving needs, ensuring consistent protection as you grow.
Our approach
Our phased delivery approach ensures that each key component of the solution is delivered in a structured and efficient manner. This approach allows for thorough design, deployment and testing of each component, ensuring a robust and secure implementation.
PHASE 1
Tenant
design
The security configuration of a new PAM tenant will be hardened to prevent external collaboration, prevent app consent, limit standard users, and enforce strong authentication.
PHASE 2
PAM forest design
and implementation
Configuring and securing a Microsoft Active Directory Forest that will contain the user accounts acting as administrators for the production Active Directory. The Forest will be locked down with group policy to limit access, with additional security steps to be taken in future phases.
PHASE 3
Privileged access workstation design
and implementation
Privileged Access Workstations will be configured and secured for the administration of the PAM Tenant and Forest. These workstations will ensure secure access for PAM administrators.
PHASE 4
Deploy
monitoring
Configuring and securing monitoring for the PAM solution. Effective monitoring will provide visibility into the security and performance of the PAM environment.
PHASE 5
Deploy privileged access
management to production
Operationalising the PAM solution. This includes deploying the solution to the production environment and ensuring it is fully functional and secure.