Use Cases → By Threat
Ransomware becomes catastrophic when attackers gain identity control. Forestall helps you expose the paths, fix chokepoints, and reduce blast radius fast.
Ransomware operators escalate through hidden privilege paths, exploit stale accounts, and leverage Shadow Admins to achieve domain-wide deployment — but organizations struggle to identify which issues actually break real attack chains.
Forestall shows the shortest paths to Tier 0, identifies chokepoints that break multiple ransomware chains, highlights Shadow Admins and risky identity patterns that expand blast radius, and produces remediation-ready evidence packs.
Scenario: An attacker phishes a help desk user and within minutes finds a privilege escalation chain leading to Domain Admin.
Problem: Attackers escalate quickly to Tier 0 through hidden privilege paths after initial compromise.
Scenario: A compromised account turns out to be a Shadow Admin with write access to group policies, enabling ransomware deployment across all endpoints.
Problem: Shadow Admins and non-obvious privilege inheritance enable mass deployment.
Scenario: Cached credentials on a file server give an attacker access to a service account that can reach the backup infrastructure.
Problem: High-risk credential patterns and risky identity configurations enable lateral movement.
Scenario: A misconfigured certificate template allows any domain user to request a certificate as a privileged identity.
Problem: Misconfigurations in identity-related services enable privilege escalation for ransomware actors.
Scenario: A decommissioned project left behind 40 enabled service accounts, several with admin-equivalent access nobody monitors.
Problem: Stale objects and forgotten identities silently expand the blast radius of ransomware.
Scenario: After containing a ransomware outbreak, the security team needs proof that compromised paths are closed before restoring operations.
Problem: After an incident, teams need to prove they closed the chain and reduced privilege.
Practical guidance, product walkthroughs, and research on identity risk.
No. Forestall reduces the identity exposures that attackers rely on. It complements EDR by addressing the identity layer proactively.
No. Forestall operates with minimal read-only privileges and does not require Domain Admin access.
No. Forestall is fully agentless and does not install anything on Domain Controllers or endpoints.
Yes. Forestall identifies chokepoints and shortest paths so you can focus on the fixes that reduce the most risk first.
Forestall offers a 1-day proof of value in your own environment, delivering actionable findings immediately.
Yes. Repeatable assessments and reporting let you confirm paths are broken and privilege is reduced.
Break the identity paths that turn an intrusion into a shutdown.
