Protect service accounts – even if you don’t know what or where they are. Our AI helps remove the risk of sprawl and automatically monitors all service accounts to identify when they’re abused.

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Break through user and entity behavior analytics (UEBA) noise. Our AI clearly alerts you to attacker behaviors with real-time attack ratings and urgency scores.

Reduce workloads

Break through user and entity behavior analytics (UEBA) noise. Our AI clearly alerts you to attacker behaviors with real-time attack ratings and urgency scores.

Find identity attacks others can't

Find actors abusing identities across your entire hybrid attack surface. Vectra AI correlates identity coverage with broader network and cloud activity to monitor for identity-based attackers using AD, Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure AD), local and cloud identities.

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Attack Anatomy

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When prevention controls fail, Vectra AI is there — find and stop attacks in minutes.

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MITRE Mapping

Comprehensive MITRE ATT&CK coverage for Active Directory

With more references in the MITRE D3FEND framework than any other vendor, only Vectra AI gives you an unfair advantage over attackers targeting Active Directory.

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TA0001: Initial Access

T1078: Valid Accounts

TA0002: Execution

T1053: Schedule Task/Job

T1569: System Services

T1047: Windows Management Instrumentation

TA0003: Persistence

T1053: Schedule Task/Job

T1078: Valid Accounts

TA0004: Privilege Escalation

T1484: Domain Policy Modification

T1053: Schedule Task/Job

T1078: Valid Accounts

TA0005: Defense Evasion

T1484: Domain Policy Modification

T1550: Use Alternate Authentication Material

T1078: Valid Accounts

T1207: Rogue Domain Controller

TA0006: Credential Access

T1110: Brute Force

T1003: OS Credential Dumping

T1649: Steal or Forge Authentication Certificates

T1558: Steal or Forge Kerberos Tickets

T1552: Unsecured Credentials

TA0007: Discovery

T1087: Account Discovery

T1482: Domain Trust Discovery

T1615: Group Policy Discovery

T1069: Permission Groups Discovery

TA0008: Lateral Movement

T1563: Remote Service Session Hijacking

T1550: Use Alternate Authentication Material

Customer Stories

See why enterprises everywhere choose Vectra AI to stop identity-based attacks

“Vectra AI helped Sanofi find and stop a sophisticated and stealthy Active Directory identity attack that bypassed our other security controls. They detected the attacker’s lateral movement, privilege escalation, and file share enumeration so we can protect our network and data."

Richard Webster

Head of Cyber Security Operations Center, Sanofi

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“As a long-time Vectra AI customer, I have confidence in identifying and stopping privilege escalation and account takeovers.”

John Shaffer

CIO, Greenhill

“Vectra AI offers excellent visibility about what attackers do inside the network.”

Gustavo Ricco

Security Operations Manager, Fenaco Informatik

“Vectra AI has given us just the right tools with minimal effort to battle against ransomware and other cyberthreats.”

Arjan Hurkmans

IT Security Operations Manager, AS Watson

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Active Directory FAQs

How do hackers attack Active Directory?

Attackers use Active Directory vulnerabilities to take over privileged accounts, penetrate your system and elevate access until they can steal your most sensitive data. From dark web purchases to password spraying, they can easily crack credentials to take control of user accounts.

What happens when Active Directory is compromised?

A compromised Active Directory can be catastrophic. Once an attacker gains privileged access to an AD domain or domain controller, that access can be used to access, control or even destroy your organization's IT assets and trade secrets. The longer an AD attacker goes undetected, the more damage they can do.

How can you know if your Active Directory is under attack?

If an attacker is capable of reaching your AD environment, it's probably sophisticated enough to do so without leaving evidence. For example, one common Active Directory attack method is to join the Domain Admins group, engage in compromising activities and then leave before your security alerts have a chance to catch up.

How do you stop Active Directory attacks?

The only proven way to see and stop an active AD attacker is with AI-driven detection to spot the earliest signs of attack activity. The more visibility you have into the attack path, the better positioned your SOC will be to stop an attacker post-compromise.

How does Vectra AI reduce your Active Directory security risks?

Vectra Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR) helps you surface account takeovers in real time. As a component of the Vectra AI Platform, it leverages AI-driven Attack Signal Intelligence to distinguish benign anomalies from misused service accounts and malicious sign-ins.

Unlike prevention measures, such as minimizing the number of accounts with privileged access, Vectra ITDR secures your Active Directory when attackers bypass prevention — so you can find and stop active attacks the day they occur.

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Why choose Vectra AI to defend against Active Directory attacks?

Protect service accounts

Reduce workloads

Reduce workloads

Find identity attacks others can't

Stop an Active Directory identity attack with Vectra ITDR

See how Vectra AI defends against real-world Active Directory attacks

Comprehensive MITRE ATT&CK coverage for Active Directory

See why enterprises everywhere choose Vectra AI to stop identity-based attacks

Vectra Identity Threat Detection and Response

Active Directory FAQs

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