Active Directory risk

Your directory is the single point of failure.

Active Directory is quickly becoming a critical failure point in any large company: decades of delegations, trusts and forgotten accounts that are both complex and costly to secure. PingCastle scores the whole thing in minutes.

Graph of Active Directory objects with highlighted privilege escalation paths

88%

of breached enterprises had a compromised AD path

< 5 min

average audit runtime on a 50k-object domain

0

bytes of directory data leaving your network

Built for domains nobody fully remembers building.

01

Attack path mapping

Every delegation, ACL and trust rendered as a graph so you can see the three hops between a helpdesk account and Domain Admin.

02

Risk scoring

A single 0–100 maturity score across privileged accounts, trusts, stale objects and hardening — comparable across every domain you own.

03

Agentless collection

One signed executable, read-only LDAP queries, no schema change, no service to deploy. Run it from a workstation and hand over the HTML report.

04

Board-ready reporting

Executive summary, per-rule detail and remediation order in one file that survives being forwarded to auditors.

PingCastle report showing maturity radar and risk score gauges

One score. Every domain. Every month.

The report opens with the number your board will ask about, then drills into the rules that produced it — each with the objects involved, the exploitation scenario and the fix. Re-run it after remediation and the delta is the proof.

  • Standalone HTML — no portal, no upload
  • Per-rule remediation ordered by effort
  • Consolidated view across forests and trusts

Ransomware doesn't break in. It logs in.

In almost every large-scale intrusion, the directory is the pivot: one over-privileged service account, one unconstrained delegation, and the blast radius becomes the whole estate. Knowing which of those exist today is the cheapest control you can buy.

Wireframe fortress illustrating a hardened directory perimeter

What security teams report back.

"We inherited four forests from acquisitions. PingCastle gave us a comparable score for each in an afternoon — that conversation used to take a consulting engagement."
Marta Kovacs Head of Infrastructure Security, industrial group (42k seats)
"The attack path graph is what finally convinced the server team. Nobody argues with a picture showing a print operator reaching Domain Admin."
Daniel Osei CISO, European retail bank
"Nothing leaves our network, so legal signed off in a day. We now re-run it monthly and track the score in our risk register."
Sophie Renard AD Platform Lead, public healthcare operator

Tell us what your domain broke.

Every rule in PingCastle exists because an engineer sent us a domain we hadn't anticipated. Send findings, false positives or feature requests — they end up in the next release.