Active Directory (AD) is the backbone many enterprises lean on for their IT environments. Yet, most organizations rarely govern the directory with the scrutiny necessary. This was the throughline of a recent webinar with Nitish Deshpande, senior anal…

How to prevent chaos in the Microsoft AD estate: A quick-start guide to reduce risk and administrative burden in medium-sized regulated businesses If you work in IT for a medium-sized regulated business, you already know the truth: Your Microsoft env…

Every year, higher education hits the same beats. New students show up in the fall, ready to begin their undergraduate career. Staff and faculty come and go on their own timelines, some tenured for decades and others moving on after a single semester…

Over 90 percent of Fortune 1000 companies run their identity on Active Directory and Entra ID. That stat answers two questions at once: Why AD is mission-critical and why it’s the most-attacked identity surface on the planet. Threat actors...

Over 300 million people rely on Microsoft Teams to get their work done every day. That’s a lot of messages, meetings and “you’re on mute” moments happening every day. Teams makes it easy to collaborate. Too easy, sometimes. An...

One Identity Active Roles is an simple identity governance solution for Microsoft environments designed to extend the capabilities of native directory tooling. Where standard AD solutions for healthcare provides foundational user and group manag...

Modernize and protect your Active Directory (AD) using Active Roles by One Identity Active Roles version 8.5 provides several highly requested features to fortify and enrich the integration capabilities of Active Roles. These new features bring unmat…

Every IT organization runs on a small cast of characters. The help desk analyst racing through tickets. The domain admin holding too many keys. The compliance manager chasing screenshots before an audit. The IT director answering for all of it. In a …

Most organizations are still managing Active Directory (AD) in environments designed decades ago – often by people who are no longer with the company. What started as a logical organizational unit (OU) structure has slowly become brittle and fe...

A newly disclosed privilege-escalation flaw in Microsoft Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) is a timely reminder that identity infrastructure continues to be one of the most consequential attack surfaces in any enterprise. CVE-2026-25177, rated…

Learn the differences between Active Roles and IGA and why you need both to keep your environments secure.

Despite constant sweeping changes across IT, Active Directory (AD) continues to be the center of identity and access management (IAM) processes for most enterprises. Even as organizations adopt cloud identity platforms, on-premises AD carries the lio…