Uncover Active Directory vulnerabilities before attackers do.

With access to Active Directory or Azure AD, threat actors can gain dominance over your entire infrastructure. Unleash Purple Knight—a free AD and Azure AD security assessment tool built by identity security experts—to close security gaps that leave your hybrid AD environment open to cyberattackers.

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100+ security indicators
45% attack surface reduction

Reduce your Active Directory attack surface.

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Do you know your Active Directory security vulnerabilities?

New Purple Knight users report an average initial security score of 61%—a barely passing grade. But users who apply the prioritized guidance provided with the assessment can systematically close AD security gaps, reducing the attack surface by up to 45%. Learn how these Purple Knight users hardened security of their AD environments.

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Spot Active Directory vulnerabilities before attackers do.

Find AD and Azure AD security gaps with Purple Knight. Perform a comprehensive set of tests against the most common and effective attack vectors to find risky configurations and security vulnerabilities.

Prioritize Active Directory security gaps for remediation.

Gain visibility into your hybrid AD security posture with the Purple Knight report. See your AD and Azure AD security scores in five categories, plus get prescriptive guidance from identity security experts to help you prioritize remediation efforts.

Fix AD and Azure AD security vulnerabilities that attackers can exploit.

Use Purple Knight’s prioritized, expert guidance to systematically address AD and Azure AD misconfigurations and unpatched vulnerabilities—for example, admin accounts with old passwords and enabled admin accounts that are inactive.

Validate hybrid AD security posture over time.

Run Purple Knight periodically to guard against misconfigurations that can accumulate over time and degrade hybrid AD environment security if left unchecked.

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security indicators

Purple Knight scans for known vulnerabilities and emerging threats discovered by our team of expert threat researchers

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Indicators of exposure (IOEs)

Scan your hybrid Active Directory environment to uncover risky configurations that attackers can easily exploit.

Indicators of compromise (IOCs)

Shine a light on evidence of compromise, which can signal an in-progress cyberattack in your Active Directory environment.

See Purple Knight in action.

Watch as Purple Knight scans an Active Directory environment in minutes, detecting vulnerabilities that attackers can exploit at any moment. Get ready to unleash Purple Knight.

What do Purple Knight users say?

Purple Knight is a powerful tool with a nicely packaged set of scripts that does a fantastic job of showing you some of the hidden aspects of your AD that are just waiting to be discovered by the wrong person. Patrick Emerick Senior Systems Engineer | Bethel School District

I recommend Purple Knight for its ease of use—it’s GUI-based, it gives you a quick report card, and gives you a good, easy checklist of things to start working on. Jim Shakespear Director of IT Security | Southern Utah University

Purple Knight is the first utility I’ve used that digs this deep into Active Directory. It works so well, I didn’t need to find anything else. Micah Clark IT Manager | Central Utah Emergency Communications

The Purple Knight report helped us take action on items right away, such as shutting down or disabling Active Directory accounts that shouldn’t have been enabled. And then it helped us develop a long-term maintenance plan. CISO Canadian manufacturing company

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