About Semperis
Semperis is a commercial security company centered on protecting identity infrastructure, especially Active Directory in hybrid environments. Its products help organizations prevent, detect, respond to and recover from identity-based attacks, including the case where a domain or tenant has been compromised and must be restored.
Its platform includes the Lightning Platform for preventing, detecting and responding to attacks, Active Directory Forest Recovery for disaster recovery, backup and recovery for Entra ID tenants and Okta tenants, and Ready1 for cyber crisis response. Further tools cover AD migration and consolidation, delegation management, and free community tools such as Purple Knight for security assessment and Forest Druid for Tier 0 attack path discovery.
Semperis also sells services including AD security assessments, Entra ID assessments, remediation, disaster recovery planning and exercises, and identity forensics and incident response. It targets regulated industries such as financial services, healthcare, federal and critical infrastructure, and hosts a conference series for identity security practitioners.
Key features
- Active Directory attack detection and response
- Forest recovery for AD disaster scenarios
- Backup and recovery for Entra ID tenants
- Backup and recovery for Okta tenants
- Tier 0 attack path discovery
- Change auditing and rollback for AD
Good fit for
- →Recovering Active Directory after ransomware
- →Assessing AD security posture
- →Planning identity disaster recovery exercises
- Tags
- active-directory
- identity-security
- entra-id
- disaster-recovery
- itdr
- backup
- enterprise
Semperis: questions and answers
- What is Semperis used for?
- Semperis is an identity-focused security vendor protecting hybrid Active Directory and Entra ID with attack detection, change rollback and cyber-first recovery. It is a good fit for recovering Active Directory after ransomware, assessing AD security posture and planning identity disaster recovery exercises.
- How much does Semperis cost?
- Semperis doesn't publish fixed prices; pricing is quoted on request.
- Is Semperis open source?
- No. Semperis is proprietary (closed-source) software. In the Security category, open-source options include Infisical, SafeLine and fail2ban.
- What are some alternatives to Semperis?
- Semperis competes with Silverfort, CrowdStrike and Tenable.
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