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APT campaigns succeed by staying quiet, escalating through identity, and living off the environment. Forestall helps you expose the routes they rely on.

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Threat Snapshot

Attacker Goal: Persistent access to sensitive systems and identities
Identity Techniques: Stealth privilege escalation, credential access, delegation abuse, trust exploitation
What Fails: Weak tier boundaries, excessive delegation, legacy identity services posture, blind spots in relationships
Business Impact: Data theft, long dwell time, repeated re-entry, regulatory and strategic harm

Disrupt Advanced Persistent Threats

The Challenge

APT campaigns use multi-step identity techniques — stealth escalation, delegation abuse, and trust exploitation — making single findings useless without understanding the full chain and hidden privilege behind long dwell times.

Our Solution

Forestall connects exposures into real attack paths, identifies Shadow Admins and delegation chains, prioritizes remediation using risk and path impact, and produces evidence packs for threat hunting and executive reporting.

Delegation chain analysis

Persistence point detection

Lateral movement path mapping

MITRE ATT&CK technique coverage

Threat-informed remediation

Threat hunt evidence packs

How Forestall Helps vs This Threat

Before Forestall

Tool fragmentation between IAM, AD ops, and security operations
Hard to explain stealth privilege routes
Remediation is broad and slow

With Forestall

Map hybrid identity relationships and locate stealth escalation chains
Identify chokepoints that reduce multiple high-value paths
Strengthen tier boundaries and reduce excessive delegation
Produce targeted "hunt here first" and "fix this first" outputs

Outputs

Top stealth escalation paths to critical identities
Delegation and trust-risk report with prioritized fixes
Shadow Admin exposure report
Executive risk narrative with measurable progress tracking

Threat Scenarios & Use Cases

Stealth privilege escalation through delegated rights and ACL inheritance

Scenario: An APT operator leverages a constrained delegation misconfiguration to impersonate a Tier 0 service account without triggering alerts.

Problem: Indirect privilege routes across objects and relationships enable silent escalation.

What Forestall does:

Finds indirect privilege routes across objects and relationships
Highlights remediation actions with highest path reduction

Output: Delegation/ACL path report with chokepoints

Stealth privilege escalation through delegated rights and ACL inheritance

Long dwell time enabled by hidden admin privileges

Scenario: A compromised identity quietly maintains backdoor access for months because its Shadow Admin status was never flagged.

Problem: Shadow Admins and non-obvious control points allow attackers to persist undetected.

What Forestall does:

Identifies Shadow Admins and non-obvious control points
Prioritizes based on reachability to crown jewels

Output: Shadow Admin risk shortlist with remediation guidance

Long dwell time enabled by hidden admin privileges

Cross-domain or cross-forest exploitation via trusts and relationships

Scenario: An attacker in a less-secured subsidiary forest exploits a bidirectional trust to pivot into the parent domain.

Problem: Trust edges and cross-boundary relationships enable compromise to pivot across domains.

What Forestall does:

Maps multi-domain/forest topology and trust edges
Shows how compromise can pivot across boundaries

Output: Trust and boundary exposure report

Cross-domain or cross-forest exploitation via trusts and relationships

Persistence risk due to privileged account sprawl

Scenario: Dozens of accounts have Tier 0 equivalent access through group nesting, giving a persistent actor many fallback options.

Problem: Excessive privilege and tier boundary violations create persistence opportunities.

What Forestall does:

Highlights excessive privilege, tier boundary violations, and risky identity patterns
Provides cleanup prioritization aligned to business impact

Output: Privilege sprawl reduction plan

Persistence risk due to privileged account sprawl

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Frequently Asked Questions

Does Forestall block APT activity in real time?

No. Forestall reduces identity exposures and shows where risk concentrates, helping teams proactively remove the conditions APTs rely on.

Do you require Domain Admin privileges?

No. Forestall operates with minimal read-only privileges and does not require Domain Admin access.

Does it support hybrid identity (AD + Entra ID)?

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

Can it help guide threat hunting?

Yes. Forestall outputs can inform hunt hypotheses by highlighting the identities and relationships most likely to be abused.

Can we measure progress over time?

Yes. Repeatable assessments and reporting let you track posture changes and demonstrate sustained risk reduction.

How fast can we see value?

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

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Defend against persistent identity compromise

Threat Snapshot

Disrupt Advanced Persistent Threats

The Challenge

Our Solution

Delegation chain analysis

Persistence point detection

Lateral movement path mapping

MITRE ATT&CK technique coverage

Threat-informed remediation

Threat hunt evidence packs

How Forestall Helps vs This Threat

Threat Scenarios & Use Cases

Stealth privilege escalation through delegated rights and ACL inheritance

What Forestall does:

Long dwell time enabled by hidden admin privileges

What Forestall does:

Cross-domain or cross-forest exploitation via trusts and relationships

What Forestall does:

Persistence risk due to privileged account sprawl

What Forestall does:

Latest resources

CVE-2025-33073: A New Technique for Reflective NTLM Relay Attack

Privilege Escalation by Abusing dMSA: The BadSuccessor Vulnerability

Understanding ESC15: A New Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in Active Directory Certificate Services (ADCS)

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