About ForestGuardian

Built by AD Experts.
Made for Everyday Defenders.

Built by practitioners with decades of experience securing, attacking, and hardening Active Directory and hybrid identity environments.

ForestGuardian gives organizations clear, prioritized visibility into identity risk so teams can act quickly without added noise, complexity, or operational strain.

30+ Years

Combined AD and hybrid identity experience

1,000+ Assessments

Across real-world environments

Operator Led

Designed & built by practicing red teamers

Born from seeing the same identity gaps repeat

Over decades of offensive penetration testing and red teaming, we consistently uncover the same identity weaknesses across Active Directory and hybrid environments: hidden paths to high-privilege access, overly permissive group memberships, forgotten delegation settings, outdated trust relationships treated as safe, and vendor-driven changes that repeatedly reopen old exposures.

Despite major projects and expensive tooling, these issues persist and resurface in later pentests and real-world incidents. ForestGuardian breaks that cycle by giving defenders the same identity risk visibility we rely on in offensive operations, with clear prioritization and practical remediation teams can act on every day.

Built by operators

Operator First

Practicing penetration testers and red teamers with decades securing and breaking into AD and hybrid environments.

Shaped by Real Incidents

Our perspective comes from live assessments, breach work, and helping teams fix what attackers actually use.

Product, Not Just Theory

We turn that experience into a tool that gives defenders clear, actionable identity insight every day.

Enterprise-grade identity security should be accessible

Simplicity

Fast to deploy, with most environments completing an initial scan in about 30 minutes or less.

Breadth and depth

Covers Active Directory and related identity paths in far greater detail than any open-source tools we have tested.

Accuracy

Checks are battle-tested in real environments, with layered validation to greatly reduce or nearly eliminate false positives.

Pragmatic findings

Every finding, from critical to low, is designed to improve AD security and hygiene, without thousands of low-value informational items.

Secure, resilient architecture

Runs on a distributed, redundant design with no single point of failure, strong encryption, selective zero-knowledge protection for sensitive data, and support for customer-controlled keys.

Discover your real Active Directory and Entra security posture

Obtain deep insight into your environment's identity risk.

Find real-world attack chains before attackers do.