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Identity controls access to everything you own. Here’s how to build identity resilience from detection to recovery.
87% of ransomware attacks target identity systems like Active Directory (AD), Entra ID, and Okta (Semperis 2026 Ransomware Risk Report). When an attacker strikes, a generic backup tool can’t recover your identity systems cleanly. In fact, it can restore malware and an attacker’s access along with your data.
Keep AD backups and recovery tooling separate from your production environment. If AD is down, you can’t rely on it to log in to your recovery tools. Isolated backups and tooling stay reachable when AD is not.
Recover AD data without restoring the server operating system with it. Attackers plant backdoors in the OS so their access survives a restore. Restoring only the AD data onto a clean OS leaves the backdoors behind.
Your recovery tool can’t rely on a SaaS control plane that’s tied to an internet connection. Often, internet connections are turned off or inaccessible during a cyberattack. Recovery must work even when the internet doesn’t.
An AD forest consists of dozens of domain controllers. Recovering them one at a time multiplies your downtime by the number you have.
A deleted object and a domain under full adversarial control require different responses. You need one platform that can handle both.
You shouldn’t need matching hardware or the exact OS patch level to bring AD back. Recover your AD data onto any physical or virtual target. Your plan can’t rely on a specific recovery environment to become available.
Rolling back a malicious change isn’t the same as verifying your AD is free of backdoors and illegitimate accounts. Post-breach forensics should detect and remove both.
Many attacks that target AD can look perfectly legitimate to security tools like firewalls or EDR, so you may not see an alert until it’s too late. You need detection built specifically for identity security indicators that trigger automated remediation.
AD is often connected to cloud identity providers like Entra ID, Okta, and Ping. If you recover AD without a plan for the others, you can reintroduce bad actors to the rest of your environment. Your solution should cover AD and the cloud providers in a single recovery plan.
Technology is just one part of resilience. You need a team that has run complex identity recoveries before and knows exactly what to look for. You should be backed by experts whose experience is dedicated to identity, not general IT response.
Everything you protect depends on identity working, so make sure your organization can detect, withstand, and recover from identity-based attacks. Learn more about assessing identity resilience solutions with our buyer’s guide.
