We’re excited to share that Silverfort is named as an Example Vendor in the 2025 Gartner A Well-Run Active Directory Requires Strong Identity Controls, authored by Paul Rabinovich, May 2025.

Silverfort is proud to be recognized as an Example Vendor in three key areas of the report:

• Implement MFA to Resources Integrated with AD
• Implement Identity Posture Management and Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR)
• MFA Integration Options for AD-Bound Legacy Applications (Authentication Forwarding Solutions)

As organizations race toward the future of the cloud, Active Directory remains one of the most challenging assets to protect. It’s deeply embedded in enterprise infrastructure, and while companies modernize, securing AD and other legacy systems can’t be an afterthought. They still hold the keys to critical access and remain prime targets for attackers.

Silverfort helps organizations secure every identity—human, machine and AI—from legacy to cloud, including the systems that traditional tools can’t cover.

Active Directory security demands strong identity controls

AD has long been the backbone of enterprise identity—and a prime target for attackers.

While AD remains critical, too many organizations are leaving it exposed to credential compromise, lateral movement and privilege escalation.

How Silverfort puts Gartner’s framework into action

Silverfort helps organizations put these best practices into action. Our identity security platform extends modern identity security to AD authentication paths, including systems and protocols traditional identity and access management (IAM) tools can’t reach.

Silverfort delivers MFA protection to every resource and access path, including homegrown applications, command-line tools, legacy systems, and OT environments, while continuously analyzing every authentication across AD and Entra ID for risky behavior.

With Silverfort’s Non-Human Identity (NHI) Security, organizations can discover all NHIs across AD and cloud, map their behavior and risk, and enforce real-time protection for AD service accounts through virtual fencing policies. By combining adaptive MFA, identity security posture management (ISPM), and real-time identity threat detection and response (ITDR), Silverfort helps secure the heart of enterprise identity from the attacks that target it most—all without any infrastructure changes.

Leading the next era of Identity Security

Identity is the new security perimeter, and AD remains central. As environments become more hybrid and threats more sophisticated, organizations need visibility into every authentication, real-time threat detection, and inline, risk-based enforcement for both human and non-human identities.

That’s the evolution Silverfort leads. By integrating seamlessly with both AD and cloud identity providers, Silverfort delivers the most compete security across all types of identities (including human, machine, and AI agents), systems, and applications.

With Silverfort, identity and security teams can work together to enforce MFA protection, continuous risk assessments, ISPM, and ITDR from a unified platform, securing every authentication without disrupting users or infrastructure. This approach embodies the same principles Gartner outlines in its framework: building strong, layered identity controls that protect AD today while preparing for the future of hybrid identity.

Source: Silverfort