About Silverfort
Silverfort is a commercial identity security platform for enterprises with hybrid environments. It focuses on protecting access at runtime, evaluating authentication and access requests across on-premises Active Directory, cloud resources and newer identity types before access is granted, so that attacks using stolen credentials can be stopped earlier.
The capabilities listed on its site include Universal MFA that extends multi-factor authentication to systems that normally lack it, an Authentication Firewall, security for non-human identities, privileged access security, identity security posture management, and identity threat detection and response. Newer additions include an Identity Graph, Access Intelligence and AI agent discovery, monitoring and protection.
Solution pages cover use cases such as service account protection, ransomware and lateral movement, Active Directory protection, identity-first incident response and cyber insurance compliance. Silverfort serves identity and security teams, and the vendor publishes a pricing page and customer stories on its website.
Key features
- Universal MFA across legacy and modern systems
- Authentication firewall to deny risky access
- Non-human identity and service account security
- Privileged access security
- Identity threat detection and response
- Identity security posture management
- AI agent discovery and monitoring
Good fit for
- →Extending MFA to legacy Active Directory resources
- →Stopping ransomware lateral movement
- →Meeting cyber insurance identity requirements
- Tags
- identity-security
- mfa
- active-directory
- itdr
- ispm
- privileged-access
- enterprise
Silverfort: questions and answers
- What is Silverfort used for?
- Silverfort is an identity security platform that adds MFA, access control and threat detection across Active Directory, cloud, service accounts and AI agents. It is a good fit for extending MFA to legacy Active Directory resources, stopping ransomware lateral movement and meeting cyber insurance identity requirements.
- How much does Silverfort cost?
- Silverfort doesn't publish fixed prices; pricing is quoted on request.
- Is Silverfort open source?
- No. Silverfort is proprietary (closed-source) software. Open-source alternatives to Silverfort include privacyIDEA.
- What are some alternatives to Silverfort?
- Silverfort competes with Okta, CyberArk and BeyondTrust. For open-source options, see Enlisted's ranked list of open-source Silverfort alternatives.
Open-source alternatives to Silverfort
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privacyIDEA
Auth & Identity
:closed_lock_with_key: multi factor authentication system (2FA, MFA, OTP, FIDO Server)
AGPL-3.0vs Duo Security★ 1.8k
Infisical
Security
Infisical is the open-source platform for secrets, certificates, and privileged access man
OSSvs Doppler★ 30k
SafeLine
Security
CyberServal open-source WAF is a self-hosted WAF with 20.9K GitHub stars. Block SQL inject
GPL-3.0vs Cloudflare★ 23k
fail2ban
Security
Daemon to ban hosts that cause multiple authentication errors
OSS★ 19k
Wazuh
Security
Wazuh - The Open Source Security Platform. Unified XDR and SIEM protection for endpoints a
OSSvs Splunk★ 17k
CrowdSec
Security
Open-source IDS/IPS, WAF and bot detection for Linux, Windows, Docker and Kubernetes, with
MITvs Cloudflare★ 15k
SaaS alternatives to Silverfort
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Okta
Auth & Identity
Cloud identity platform for workforce single sign-on, multifactor authentication and lifecycle management
SaaSCyberArk
Security
Identity security and privileged access management for people, machines and AI agents
SaaS
BeyondTrust
Security
Privileged access management and remote support for enterprises
SaaS
Duo Security
Auth & Identity
Cisco's multi-factor authentication and device trust service for workforces
SaaS
Ping Identity
Auth & Identity
Enterprise workforce and customer identity management with SSO and MFA
SaaS
CrowdStrike
Security
Cloud-native endpoint protection, threat detection and response platform
SaaS

