90%
of the incidents involve the identity plane
Platform
Identity Security Posture Management and Visibility
Agentless identity security assessment across Active Directory, Entra ID, and Microsoft 365. Discover misconfigurations, map privilege escalation paths, detect shadow admins - no Domain Admin required, no endpoint agents.
AgentlessNo Domain Admin requiredHuman and Non-Human Identities
Key Features
- Identity Attack Surface Management
- Identity Risk Assessment
- Attack Path Management
- Compliance
- Credential Discovery
- Reporting Automation
Forestall Field Insights
24%
of relations cause Privilege Escalation Paths
10%
of objects are Shadow Admins
15%
of stale objects can compromise critical identities
Key Features
A comprehensive set of identity security capabilities that work without agents, without elevated privileges, and across hybrid environments.
Identity Attack Surface Management
Agentless mapping of identities, services, and privilege posture.
- Analyze multi-forest and hybrid identity environments without agents or admin privileges
- Assess identity objects and their relationships
- Evaluate related services such as Exchange, Teams, SharePoint, DNS, ADCS, WSUS, and SCCM
- Enrich identities with contextual correlations
- Assess privileges and tiers to determine each object privilege level
- Automatically identify and classify service accounts
- Detect local administrator privileges by analyzing local objects
- Identify remnant credentials by analyzing active sessions
Identity Risk Assessment
Prioritized findings across protocols, services, and identity objects.
- Detect critical misconfigurations across protocols, objects, services, and settings
- Identify excessive, outdated, or misconfigured access privileges across objects
- Provide actionable guidance for identification, mitigation, and detection
- Deliver prioritization metrics such as exploitation certainty, required privilege, and ease of mitigation
- Support in-house vulnerability lifecycle management with status tracking and custom tagging
- Calculate risk and exposure scores for each object to highlight vulnerable identities
- Map findings to the MITRE ATT&CK Matrix for standardized scoring and context
- Provide trend insights to track progress and support reporting
Attack Path Management
Full access graph with automated paths and chokepoints.
- Map on-premises and cloud identities and relationships into a complete access graph
- Automatically detect privilege escalation paths and label Shadow Admins
- Provide intuitive graph visualizations for attack path analysis
- Deliver built-in queries tailored to different object types for holistic assessments
- Enable an interactive graph interface for manual access reviews
- Include a query builder to uncover custom and complex attack paths
- Automate tier model analysis to highlight chokepoints and mitigate paths with minimal effort
Compliance
Baseline alignment, policy analysis, and audit-ready reporting.
- Analyze Group Policies and RSoP against CIS, STIG, and Microsoft Baseline standards
- Automate compliance reporting with a built-in reporting engine
- Define custom policies to establish tailored baseline controls
- Evaluate GPO-related mitigation processes and detect misconfigured servers and settings
- Provide detailed remediation guidance for each policy setting
- Provide pre-built report templates for regional and sector regulations
- Map compliance findings to control statements and produce audit-ready evidence views
- Support regulation-specific dashboards showing pass/fail, exceptions, and remediation status
- Export compliance reports by framework, business unit, and time range
- Generate baseline alignment, GPO drift, high-risk policy, remediation progress, and audit evidence reports
Credential Discovery
Find exposed credentials in shares with access context.
- Analyze SMB shares to detect exposed credentials
- Provide an access matrix to highlight credentials readable by Everyone
- Offer a dashboard to monitor credential exposure and deliver immediate insights
- Include an extensible regex-based crawling engine to detect custom data types at risk
Reporting Automation
Scheduled reports, exports, and stakeholder-ready distribution.
- Schedule recurring report generation by module, scope, and severity
- Automate exports in PDF and CSV formats with consistent templates
- Generate role-based report bundles for Executive, SOC, IT Operations, and Audit teams
- Support filtered reporting by environment, domain, OU, group, tier, and time range
- Track remediation progress with trend snapshots and delta reporting
- Provide saved views and reusable query-based reports
- Enable secure sharing workflows with access control and expiry options
- Provide API-ready outputs for integration pipelines
- Generate weekly executive summaries, compliance snapshots, critical identity digests, and attack path reports
Choose your path
See how the platform supports real workflows for each role.
CISO
A clear picture of identity exposure and measurable progress.
- Track top risks and critical identities at a glance
- Measure remediation progress with trends and reporting
- Share executive-ready summaries with stakeholders
- Align identity posture reporting to board-level risk language
Identity Access Management
Improve governance and reduce privilege risk with clear ownership context.
- Surface over-privileged identities and risky trust paths quickly
- Prioritize fixes based on exploitability and operational impact
- Track control improvements with repeatable reporting workflows
- Validate provisioning and deprovisioning against least-privilege baselines
System Administrator
Fix what matters with clear, practical guidance.
- Identify misconfigurations with step-by-step remediation cues
- Reduce excessive privileges safely and systematically
- Improve baseline alignment without guesswork
- Export structured fix lists for change management workflows
Red Team
Understand realistic routes and constraints in the identity graph.
- Explore escalation routes and reachable targets
- Highlight shadow admin and tiering weaknesses
- Use visuals to communicate risk and fix priorities
- Validate control effectiveness with attack path simulation
Latest resources
Practical guidance, product walkthroughs, and research on identity risk.
Frequently asked questions
ISPM (Identity Security Posture Management) is the practice of continuously discovering, assessing, and hardening identity infrastructure - finding misconfigurations, excessive privileges, and attack paths before attackers exploit them. Forestall also operates as an IVIP (Identity Visibility and Intelligence Platform), providing deeper intelligence across human and non-human identities.
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