Identity security posture management
See every identity risk, and the one fix that closes the most paths.
Forestall reads Active Directory and your cloud directories without agents, maps how every identity connects, and shows the misconfigurations, hidden admins and attack paths an intruder would use.
- No agents on any machine
- Read-only, no Domain Admin needed
- Runs inside your network, air-gapped too
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Where it hurts today
The problems Forestall is built for
Nobody sees the whole estate
Service accounts multiply and trusts span forests that no single team owns.
Small issues chain together
A delegation here and a stale account there add up to a route to Domain Admin.
Shadow admins
Some identities hold admin-level reach without sitting in any privileged group.
Credentials left on shares
Passwords, keys and tokens sit in scripts and files that many people can read.
What it does
Everything Forestall covers
- Hybrid identity discovery
- Active Directory across forests and trusts, Entra ID, Azure, Microsoft 365, AWS, Google Cloud and Google Workspace.
- Asset and relation mapping
- Identities, the services around them (Exchange, SharePoint, DNS, ADCS, WSUS, SCCM) and how they depend on each other.
- Non-human identities
- Service and machine accounts with their privilege tier, credential age and rotation.
- Local admins and leftover credentials
- Local administrator rights on domain-joined systems, and credentials left behind by sessions.
- Privilege assessment
- The tier of every object, with excessive and unused rights called out.
- Identity hygiene
- Dormant privileged accounts, passwords that never expire, orphaned and stale objects.
- Misconfiguration detection
- Weak settings across Kerberos, LDAP and NTLM, identity objects and directory services.
- Risk and exposure scoring
- A score per object from its configuration, privilege and relationships, tracked over time.
- Access graph and path detection
- One graph of on-premises and cloud identities that finds privilege escalation paths and labels shadow admins.
- Cross-cloud paths
- Routes that run through AWS role chains and Google Cloud service-account impersonation.
- Chokepoint and tier analysis
- The objects that sit on the most paths, and every breach of the tier model.
- Query builder
- Built-in and custom queries for access reviews and complex path questions.
- Prioritised findings
- Each finding ranked by how exploitable it is and how easy the fix is, mapped to MITRE ATT&CK with remediation steps.
- Group Policy baselines
- Applied settings compared with CIS, DISA STIG, Microsoft Security Baselines or your own baseline.
- Compliance scoring
- Scores and evidence reports per framework from one analysis, including the regional ones.
- Credential discovery on shares
- An inventory of exposed secrets with a matrix of who can read each file.
- Reports and API
- Scheduled reports for executives, the SOC and auditors, by email or through a REST API to SIEM, SOAR, GRC and ticketing.
- Finding lifecycle
- Status, tags and trend for every finding from discovery to fix, carried across scans.
How it works
From first connection to steady state
Integrate
about 1 hourConnect read-only. A scanner runs on one machine in your network.
Analyse
about 1 dayIdentities and relationships become a graph; exposures and chokepoints surface.
Act
about 1 weekFindings turn into ordered remediation tasks with guidance and audit evidence.
Iterate
about 1 monthRepeat assessments track posture and catch drift.
Timings as published by Forestall.
Where it is used
What teams use Forestall for
Ransomware readiness
The shortest routes to Tier 0, the blast radius, and the fixes that remove the most routes.
Audit preparation
Baseline comparison and framework reports in place of manual Group Policy review.
Incident response
From a compromised identity, the paths to critical assets and who else is exposed.
Mergers and acquisitions
A read-only assessment of the other company's identity estate before integration.
Tier model validation
Boundary violations named, with the objects and relationships that cause them.
Non-human identity review
Over-privileged and forgotten service accounts ranked by what they can reach.
Figures as published by Forestall.
Works with
What it connects to
Standards
Frameworks
Frameworks Forestall scores or maps findings against.
With Channel Nexus
Talk to someone who knows Forestall
One call, several technologies
On the booking page you choose Forestall and any other technology you want to hear about.
A consultant first, the vendor when it helps
A Channel Nexus consultant takes the call and brings in Forestall's own specialists for the detail.
A time that suits you
You pick the time. If a consultant cannot make it, we propose other times that suit you.
Datasheets
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- One Pager
- Use Cases
- Datasheet