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Identity resilience you can measure

Board-ready clarity across risk, compliance, and attack paths, with progress you can prove over time.

Role Snapshot

  • Responsibilities: Set identity security strategy and prove progress
  • Measured on: Risk reduction, audit outcomes, incident reduction, ROI
  • Reality: Too many findings, unclear prioritization, limited resources
  • Common blocker: Credible reporting for executives and auditors

Measure and Report Identity Risk

The Challenge

Identity risk is reported qualitatively without measurable baselines, priorities are unclear, and proving progress to the board and auditors is difficult, especially across hybrid environments.

Our Solution

Forestall delivers resilience scores, KPI timelines, tactical and strategic roadmaps, and compliance scoring across CIS, STIG, and Microsoft baselines — giving leadership measurable proof of progress.

Executive risk dashboards

Board-ready posture reports

Compliance score tracking

Measurable risk reduction KPIs

Strategic remediation roadmaps

Regulatory audit evidence

How This Role Uses Forestall

Before Forestall
  • Reactive reporting and fragmented tools
  • Unclear accountability for remediation
  • Difficult to show ROI
With Forestall
  • Establish baseline resilience score and top drivers
  • Track KPIs and remediation progress over time
  • Align priorities to business impact and crown jewels
  • Prepare audit-ready evidence and leadership reporting
Outputs
  • Quarterly executive report pack (scores, trends, top risks)
  • Tactical plan (30-60-90 days) + strategic plan (12 months)
  • Compliance scorecards per baseline
  • Chokepoint fixes that reduce risk fastest

Role-Specific Use Cases

Resilience scoring

Scenario: The board requests a measurable baseline for identity security posture but no quantifiable metric exists.

Problem: Identity risk is reported qualitatively without measurable baselines.

What Forestall does:

  • Calculates posture and resilience across multiple identity risk dimensions
  • Provides baseline plus improvement targets
Output: Executive scorecard for identity resilience
Resilience scoring

KPI timeline and trend insights

Scenario: Leadership wants to see whether last quarter's remediation investments actually moved the needle on identity risk.

Problem: Progress and regression in identity security are hard to track over time.

What Forestall does:

  • Tracks key identity KPIs over time (shadow admins, paths, drift, exposures)
  • Highlights progress and regression drivers
Output: KPI trends pack for leadership reporting
KPI timeline and trend insights

Compliance scoring across baselines

Scenario: An upcoming audit requires evidence of GPO alignment against CIS benchmarks and the team relies on manual spreadsheets.

Problem: Audit evidence is manual, fragmented, and hard to reproduce.

What Forestall does:

  • Measures policy posture against CIS, STIG, and Microsoft baselines
  • Produces audit-ready evidence
Output: Compliance scorecards and audit exports
Compliance scoring across baselines

Early detection of emerging identity threats

Scenario: A ransomware campaign targeting AD is in the news and the CISO needs to know if the organization is exposed.

Problem: Emerging identity exposures commonly leveraged by ransomware and APTs go unnoticed.

What Forestall does:

  • Prioritizes exposures commonly leveraged by ransomware and APTs
  • Flags high-impact changes and risky patterns
Output: High-risk exposure watchlist
Early detection of emerging identity threats

Battle Tested Platform

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Identities

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Relations

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Enterprise IAM

Frequently Asked Questions

Is this continuous real-time monitoring?

No. Forestall uses a periodic assessment model that provides thorough posture analysis and trend tracking over time.

Can we prove progress over time?

Yes. Forestall tracks KPIs, resilience scores, and remediation progress across assessments with trend reporting.

Does it require agents or Domain Admin?

No. Forestall is fully agentless and operates with minimal read-only privileges.

Does it cover Entra ID?

Yes. Forestall provides hybrid visibility across both Active Directory and Entra ID environments.

Can it support compliance programs?

Yes. Forestall scores policies against CIS, STIG, and Microsoft baselines and produces audit-ready evidence.

How fast can we see value?

Forestall offers a 1-day proof of value in your own environment, delivering actionable findings immediately.

Turn identity risk into measurable progress

Make priorities clear and show results to leadership.

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