Netwrix PingCastle AD Security Assessment

Assess and prioritise Active Directory security risks

Active Directory often contains legacy settings, forgotten accounts and unintended privilege delegations. These issues increase the risk of unauthorised access and lateral movement within on‑premises and hybrid estates.

Where Netwrix PingCastle is used

Run an AD security assessment to establish the current risk posture and produce a prioritised remediation list for the security or identity team. Use findings to identify stale or exposed accounts for cleanup and to review delegation and privileged accounts that require tightening.

Fits within these solutions

Active Directory Reporting

Suitable environments

Fits organisations running on‑premises Microsoft Active Directory, including mid‑market and enterprise environments and hybrid estates that include Azure AD, especially where dedicated security or identity teams manage remediation and where regulatory requirements drive periodic assessments.

Benefits

Improved visibility

Provides clear visibility into AD misconfigurations, stale accounts and privilege issues.

Focused remediation

Prioritised findings guide teams to fix the highest‑risk issues first.

Reduce account exposure

Highlights stale and exposed accounts so teams can remove or secure them promptly.

Clarified privilege risks

Makes delegation and privilege problems visible to support least‑privilege decisions.

Decision evidence

Reports and risk scores provide documented evidence to support remediation choices.

Attack path insight

Maps potential attack routes to help teams understand how an attacker might move.

Capabilities

AD environment scanning

Performs scans of Microsoft Active Directory environments to locate configuration and security issues.

Detect security risks

Identifies security risks and misconfigurations that increase attack surface in Active Directory.

Find stale accounts

Detects exposed or stale user and computer accounts that may pose security risks.

Privilege analysis

Assesses privilege assignments and delegation to highlight improper or risky access paths.

Attack path mapping

Generates potential attack paths that show how misconfigurations enable lateral movement.

Report generation

Produces reports that document findings, attack paths and risk scoring for review.

Risk scoring

Assigns risk scores and prioritises findings to focus remediation effort on the most critical issues.

Applications

Baseline assessments

Establish the current Active Directory risk posture before starting remediation work.

Prioritise fixes

Use risk scores to sequence remediation tasks where resources are limited.

Account cleanup

Identify and remove or secure stale and exposed accounts as part of housekeeping.

Review privileged access

Assess delegation and privileged accounts to reduce excessive privileges.

Support compliance

Provide documented findings to support regulatory or internal evidence requirements.

Hybrid AD checks

Assess on‑premises Active Directory in environments that include Azure AD components.

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