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PRODUCT: IDENTITY GUARDIANS

Automate Credential Remediation
Across Your Directory Services

SpyCloud Identity Guardians integrate with Active Directory, Entra ID, and Okta Workforce to automatically detect and remediate compromised credentials. Prevent account takeover and improve password hygiene across your entire workforce with less lift.

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HOW IT WORKS

Turn darknet data into automated directory defense

SpyCloud Identity Guardians empower Identity and Access Management (IAM) teams to prevent identity threats by acting on breach, malware, and phishing credential exposures before criminals can. Instead of relying on outdated password policies or manual resets, Identity Guardians deliver continuous monitoring and automated remediation of verified credential exposures – aligned with NIST 800-63B and Zero Trust principles.

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Detect exposures, continuously

Scheduled scanning detects workforce credential exposures day or night, without manual intervention

Automate remediation, holistically

Eliminate blindspots and reset exposed passwords instantly – including those tied to employees’ past or personal identities

Reduce risk, comprehensively

Extend protection to contractors and third parties to ensure secure, compliant access across environments

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SpyCloud integrates where identity hygiene happens

Whether you manage on-prem directories or cloud-based identities, Identity Guardians plug into your environment with minimal setup – enabling real-time credential remediation without slowing down operations.

Active Directory Guardian

Automate credential resets or disable high-risk accounts – acting on malware exposures in as little as 5 minutes from discovery

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Entra ID
Entra ID Guardian

Extend automated credential protection to Microsoft’s cloud-based directory services

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Okta Workforce Guardian

Integrate with Okta Workforce Identity to enforce password hygiene and prevent account compromise

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IDLink analytics

Find up to 14x more passwords per user

Scan with IDLink for even more powerful coverage of exposed Active Directory accounts. Find all exposed credentials tied to your employees’ holistic identities, some of which are likely outside your monitoring visibility.

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Using SpyCloud helps us break into the cycle of identity access brokers and remediate compromised accounts before they are used against us. The Active Directory Guardian platform has also enabled us to enforce and maintain excellent account hygiene of our clients

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Up-level your identity threat defense

Strengthen your identity security posture across the board.

Employee ATO Prevention

Prevent account takeover attempts by identifying exposed employee credentials

Malware Exposure Remediation

Remediate malware-exfiltrated credentials to prevent ransomware and other identity-based attacks

VIP Guardian

Safeguard your high-risk executives and privileged users from targeted attacks

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SpyCloud Identity Guardian FAQs

Active Directory Guardian can force a password reset to Okta instead of performing a password reset in AD or Azure, requiring the user to change his/her password upon the next login. Setup just takes a few steps and can be incorporated as an action in the customizable Remediation Policies.

SpyCloud also offers a native Okta workflow integration for automation and management inside of Okta Workforce.

SpyCloud Identity Guardians provide several options to easily reset an Active Directory password including the options to disable a user or force a password process when a password match is found. Options can be easily defined in the Remediation Policies.

Yes, Active Directory Guardian can improve password hygiene and password security across your organization.

Active Directory Guardian prevents employees from creating passwords that are in SpyCloud’s vast repository of exposed passwords, variations of passwords, dictionary words, and sequential characters. You can also create a custom “Banned Password List” (e.g., company names, industry terms, etc.) and you can streamline compliance with NIST password guidelines. Prevent insider threats from poor cyber hygiene and security practices that can lead to account takeover and ransomware attacks.

The passwords you choose and how you manage them have serious security implications as the use of stolen credentials continues to be the number one entry point for cybercriminals.

Active Directory Guardian accounts for some of the best password management practices by preventing employees from using previously exposed passwords, dictionary words, sequential characters, and fuzzy matches of exposed passwords. SpyCloud also recommends that you streamline compliance with NIST password guidelines. Click more here for more password best practices and tips.

The NIST password guidelines are a part of Digital Identity Guidelines in, “NIST Special Publication 800-63B.” Some highlights include:

Identify and avoid: “Passwords obtained from previous breach corpuses.”
Identify and avoid: “Dictionary Words.”
Identify and avoid: “Repetitive or sequential characters.” (e.g., ‘aaaaa’ or ‘1234abcd)
Identify and avoid: “Context-specific words, such as the name of the service, the username, and derivatives thereof.”
Remediate compromised passwords: “If the chosen secret is found in the list, the CSP or verifier SHALL advise the subscriber that they need to select a different secret, SHALL provide the reason for rejection, and SHALL require the subscriber to choose a different value.”

Active Directory Guardian makes it easy to streamline compliance with NIST password guidelines.

Active Directory Guardian prevents employees from creating passwords that are in SpyCloud’s vast repository of exposed passwords, variations of passwords, dictionary words, and sequential characters. You can also create a custom “Banned Password List” (e.g., company names, industry terms, etc.) and you can streamline compliance with NIST password guidelines. To see passwords you should consider banning, check out our list of the top “bad passwords,” updated monthly.

Active Directory Guardian runs locally on your Active Directory member server or domain controller.

Entra ID Guardian runs in an Azure container and supports cloud-native deployments.