Attivo Networks and Carahsoft discussed how state and local governments continue to be a top target of ransomware attacks which cause major disruption as well as operational and financial impacts throughout the USA.

Active Directory (AD) remains the first target for attackers, often abusing misconfigurations that the SecOps team is unaware of due to the lack of visibility.

By evading traditional defense mechanisms, attackers advance their attack plan by establishing a beachhead on an internal system and expand their foothold.

Using discovery and reconnaissance, these attackers move laterally to find critical AD objects, live hosts, and services to exploit, steal, and reuse credentials to escalate privileges.

During this complimentary webinar, we discussed how to:

Attivo Networks provides an innovative defense for protection against identity compromise, privilege escalation, and lateral movement attacks. The company's solutions deliver unprecedented visibility, prevention, and derailment for security exposures, attack paths, and attack escalation activities across endpoints, Active Directory, and cloud environment.