Modernized healthcare organizations face steep challenges in securing and managing myriad devices, applications and services. Their environments include on-premises, hybrid and multicloud setups, the network edge, and multiple facilities and affiliates.
That means their attack surface offers near limitless potential vulnerabilities. Malicious actors also have emerging capabilities with artificial intelligence to make identity-based attacks even more pernicious and pervasive.
Even with these complex environments, Semperis Directory Services Protector ensures the integrity and availability of crucial Microsoft Active Directory and Entra ID (formerly Azure AD) cloud-based identity and access management services. Organizations can securely manage user access and significantly reduce outage recovery time. The hybrid platform defends millions of identities from data breaches, cyberattacks, and daily operational and human errors by continuously spotting misconfiguration errors and unpatched vulnerabilities.
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Semperis DSP Provides a Holistic Snapshot of Your Environment
In testing, Semperis DSP proved to be a highly efficient and full-featured platform. It was straightforward and quick to install and deploy. The standout feature was the single dashboard management console that visualizes AD and Entra ID vulnerabilities and their severity levels, communicating clear security elements for even less technical users.
An administrator can view the overall security score of an organization’s AD domains and forests at a glance, while an undo feature allows leaders to simply correct misconfiguration errors. Additionally, the security status is constantly updated. Organizations can identify and thwart hybrid attacks that move from on-premises to the cloud, and vice versa. And to make reporting even more legible for a range of stakeholders, a Scoring Capability feature helps to translate security metrics into digestible key performance indicators to tangibly demonstrate ROI.
Semperis DSP Works in Healthcare
I spoke with a lead systems engineer at a Philadelphia-based health system who uses Semperis DSP at his organization to secure its on-premises and hybrid environments. Because of the platform’s user-friendliness, even less-trained staff can perform automated AD backup and recovery. When the organization tested AD forest recovery, he said it took his team less than two hours rather than weeks or a month in a manual recovery.
Semperis DSP Offers a Dynamic and Cost-Effective Solution
As a cost-effective, automation-forward solution, Semperis can license DSP based on the number of active users rather than the total number of individual user accounts. Licensing software based on the number of concurrent active users at any given time allows enterprises to rely on a smaller pool of licenses to accommodate temporary workers and dynamic workforces across varying time zones.
Securing and managing AD and Entra ID domains is a must for healthcare organizations. Semperis DSP excels in large, complex enterprises that are veteran AD and Entra ID users and require end-to-end visibility to identify and prevent identity-based attacks.
SPECIFICATIONS
PRODUCT TYPE: Hybrid Active Directory threat detection and response platform
CORE PARTS: On-premises solution with management server, database and collection agent components
MAJOR FUNCTIONS: Continuous threat monitoring of hybrid AD and Entra ID, rules-based access control administration model, reporting and more
COMPLIANCE REPORT TEMPLATES: Common standards, including GDPR, HIPAA, PCI and SOX
INTEGRATIONS: Microsoft Sentinel and Splunk
ADDITIONAL FEATURES: AI-powered attack pattern detection, granular rollback and forensic analysis
