HAWTHORNE, NJ–June 12, 2019 — Stealthbits Technologies, Inc., a cybersecurity software company focused on protecting an organization’s sensitive data and the credentials attackers use to steal that data, today announced the release of StealthINTERCEPT 6.1, their real-time change auditing and policy enforcement platform.
Among the many improvements in this latest release are new capabilities within StealthINTERCEPT’s LDAP monitoring module. LDAP is a highly leveraged communication protocol within Active Directory (AD) and is most commonly used to query information from AD to facilitate authentication and authorization processes. However, LDAP queries can be both burdensome from a performance perspective when improperly configured and used for nefarious purposes by attackers performing reconnaissance activities, making the need for insight into the LDAP queries being run in an environment a necessity for operational and security purposes. Unfortunately, native LDAP logging within Active Directory is kluge, noisy, and resource intensive, making it highly challenging for many administrators to make heads or tails of the data they capture, if they can harvest the data at all.
“StealthINTERCEPT for LDAP has been enhanced in version 6.1 to provide even deeper insight into LDAP traffic, helping to make short work of digesting the most important LDAP activities,” said Rod Simmons, Stealthbits’ VP of Product Strategy – Active Directory. “Version 6.1 introduces new capabilities to help further filter out excessive, inconsequential noise activities, as well as pinpoint specific scenarios like applications leveraging unsecured LDAP protocols and inefficient queries that can be optimized to reduce unnecessary load on Domain Controllers,” Simmons continued.
With this latest release, LDAP enhancements include:
- Secure LDAP Queries – supporting LDAPs, as well as Kerberos Sign and Seal detection
- Query Run Time – filtering queries that have a run time above or below a given threshold to identify inefficient queries
- Enhanced User and Computer Filtering – reduction of unnecessary activity
- Exclude Query – users can now apply exclusion filters based on the search string or search base/base DN of the search
StealthINTERCEPT 6.1 also includes new functionality around password policy compliance monitoring, allowing users to implement a password policy using an “audit-only” mode that verifies if a password supplied during a change is compliant with desired policy. Users can optionally reject the usage of non-compliant passwords using StealthINTERCEPT’s Enterprise Password Enforcer (EPE) module as well, rather than only rejecting it.
“Whether the decision to strengthen password policy is to adopt the new NIST password guidelines or implement additional security checks to prevent weak password usage, leveraging this “audit-only” mode allows organizations to prepare for and subsequently limit the impact on end-users and helpdesks alike when tighter password restrictions are implemented and enforced,” said Adam Laub, Stealthbits’ SVP of Product Management. “We’ve seen incredible interest and adoption of EPE from both existing and prospective customers since its release. Now StealthINTERCEPT users can gauge the extent of their password complexity issues through passive observation over time before implementing EPE’s enforcement controls.”
To learn more about StealthINTERCEPT 6.1, click here.
In addition to StealthINTERCEPT 6.1, Stealthbits has released StealthRECOVER 1.4 and Stealthbits Activity Monitor 4.1, both providing users with multiple performance and functionality improvements.
About Stealthbits Technologies
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Stealthbits Technologies, Inc. is a cybersecurity software company focused on protecting an organization’s sensitive data and the credentials attackers use to steal that data. By removing inappropriate data access, enforcing security policy, and detecting advanced threats, we reduce security risk, fulfill compliance requirements, and decrease operations expense.
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