Why SmartProfiler?

It’s crucial to carry out an advanced assessment before purchasing any monitoring software for Microsoft Active Directory, Microsoft 365, or Azure to make sure the tool can keep an eye on all the problems the assessment tool finds—something the SmartProfiler does! Not every assessment tool examines every facet of the M365 and Active Directory environments.

Active Directory & CIS Assessment.

Security Assessment Tools for Active Directory, M365, AVD, Azure, Entra ID

Our mission for Health and risk assessment of Active Directory, Microsoft 365, Azure and Azure Virtual Desktop is to provide a comprehensive evaluation of our clients’ environment and identify potential issues, risks, and opportunities for improvement.

400+ Security & Health Checks

To ensure the security of an Active Directory, Microsoft 365, Azure, Azure Virtual Desktop and Entra ID, organizations often employ various tests and best practices, including those outlined by MITRE, ANSSI, CIS and NIST organizations.

SmartProfiler Built-in Issues Fixer Tools

SmartProfiler ships Issues Fixer. You can fix low, high and medium issues with a mouse click and follow the on-screen steps to resolve an issue. The Issues Fixer can also be used to export the PowerShell script with affected objects to fix the issues.

Provide Vendor Recommendation Link for Each Test

SmartProfiler provides vendor links for each test so you can learn more about each test’s importance and the reasons you should check your environments against vendor recommendations.

Customize Reports and View issues in Console

Since SmartProfiler generates its reports in Word Format, they can be customized and rebranded. Additionally, you can change an issue’s severity or the SmartProfiler’s impact recommendations and impacts.

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Assessment Approach & Methodology

SmartProfiler uses three-steps methodology which has been designed based on our experience working with hundreds of AVD, Active Directory, Microsoft 365, and Azure environments.

  • Understanding the stakeholders

    In an IT environment we have two main stakeholders; IT Management Team who is responsible for allocating budget and making decisions. IT Operations Team who is responsible for maintaining the IT environment and ensuring all business services are up and running.

  • Discovering & Defining Assessment Scope

    The goal is to address Management needs by ensuring the scope for environment is known. The scope can be considered as a set of Active directory domains/host pools/office subscriptions. There need to be a discovery phase that can discover current environment and present a summary of discovered objects.

  • Executing Assessment & Generating Detailed Reports

    You are ready to execute Assessment for scoped Active Directory domains/host pools or Microsoft 365/Azure subscriptions and then generate reports.

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SmartProfiler - Products

SmartProfiler is a single application providing multiple solutions such as Active Directory Assessment, M365 CIS Assessment, Azure AVD Assessment, Entra ID Assessment, and FSLogix Assessment.

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SmartProfiler for Active Directory

SmartProfiler is a Multi-Active Directory Forest assessment solution to Uncover Active Directory vulnerabilities before attackers do and can generate an assessment report with Impact and recommendations highlighted in the report.

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SmartProfiler for M365 CIS Assessment

SmartProfiler for Microsoft 365 is an automated Health & Risk assessment solution to help you significantly improve your Microsoft 365 ecosystem health & security posture. SmartProfiler for Office 365 Assessment follows CIS-Workbench controls.

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SmartProfiler for Microsoft AVD

Businesses have deployed Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop in production. However, many AVD environments are still not utilizing full capabilities of FSLogix and AVD Capabilities. AVD Assessment can help uncover issues in your AVD environment.

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SmartProfiler CIS/NIST Analyzer

SmartProfiler CIS/NIST Analyzer is to check recommended GPO settings in Active Directory for Domain Controllers and Member Servers. CIS/NIST Analyzer can ensure that all GPO Settings are following standards defined by CIS and NIST organizations.

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SmartProfiler for Microsoft Azure CIS Assessment

SmartProfiler for Microsoft Azure CIS Assessment supports latest CIS v2.1.0 and can do assessment of Entra ID, Azure-Infra and other 119 tests which are recommended by Azure Experts globally.

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SmartProfiler VMWare ESXi CIS Assessment

SmartProfiler VMWare ESXi CIS Assessment has been designed to check recommended configuration for ESXi hosts running 8.0 and provide recommendations to fix each issue.

We can help remediate issues using Automated Tools and Custom Scripts or use Built-In Fixer Tools available with SmartProfiler

We have specialised knowledge and expertise in many different facets of technology as a group of Microsoft professionals, especially those that pertain to Microsoft products and services. We can assist you if you need help fixing problems found by the SmartProfiler Tools in your environment. You can also use Built-in Fixer available with SmartProfiler for Active Directory & CIS Assessment.

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Active Directory Security Assessment Dashboard by SmartProfiiler.
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View Findings in SmartProfiler Console

There are four summary panels available in SmartProfiler; Bird’s EYE View, Category-Wise, Short Summary and Severity-Wise. You can check all views in console before generating report.

 

The "COMPLETE" Assessment

Someone is "securing" something, and someone else is "breaking" something. Attackers just need to employ the 30–35 approaches listed in order to get access to Active Directory, but security personnel must employ all available technological tools in order to defend the environment from attackers. When we say, "all technical means," we mean looking at Active Directory from the standpoints of attackers and AD upkeep.

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The fact that an attacker would have investigated every method of breaking into Active Directory despite the fact that not all Active Directory administrators are aware of them makes it necessary to conduct a "complete" security assessment for Active Directory.

Advanced assessment parameters for an Active Directory security assessment includes:

1. Investigating further based on the assessment findings.
2. Checking all GPO Settings recommended by CIS and NIST for domain Controllers.
3. Ensure the necessary structure is defined for GPO and all recommended GPO settings are implemented.
4. Administration structure is defined for Organizational Units and to manage AD & domain joined devices.
5. Operational procedures are in place.

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While the Assessment Categories assist in selecting the appropriate Active Directory Assessment tool, the Methodology provides an overall perspective for both the IT Management Team and IT Operations Team. The SmartProfiler adopts a methodology that caters to the needs of both teams. The methodology should include the following:

  • Assessing the current environment level: The tool should evaluate the existing Active Directory environment and discover all domains.
  • Identifying Critical and High Risks: The Management Team needs to be aware of any critical and high-risk factors in the environment that might potentially disrupt business applications.
  • Prioritizing Items in an Action Plan: The Management Team must determine if there are critical and high-risk items that require immediate attention, considering the cost associated with addressing them. Since budget limitations may exist, prioritization becomes necessary.
  • Vendor Recommendation Link: It is the most important aspect of an Active Directory engagement. You would like to know what Microsoft and other vendors say about the issues reported by the tool and does the tool provides a link to check?
  • Mitigation Pan: A mitigation plan can be drafted based on your engagement experience which includes preventing issues/failures in the near future.

 

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How many times have you assessed an Active Directory environment for a client and seen users with unrestricted delegation, trusted for delegation, DES-Encryption enabled, and pre-authentication Kerberos disabled? So, a small business running Active Directory with two to five domain controllers should to be able to manage their AD infrastructure easily without the need for utilising the aforementioned settings for users. Unrestricted delegation, DES-Encryption for users, and deactivating pre-authentication Kerberos for users are not actually required. You would still need to complete the tests associated to users as part of the standard checklist included in the Assessment tool to make sure everything is in order for user objects.

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Effective Security, Health and Misconfiguration assessment for Microsoft Technologies

Reduce Attack Surface by 95%

Since SmartProfiler checks every component of AD, M365, Azure, it helps in reducing the attack surface by 95%.

Check Every Technology Component

Checks every component of Active Directory from Objects to Replication configuration and find out hidden components.

Identify health and mis-configuration issues

Active Directory misconfiguration and health problems cannot always be found using every tool or product.

Reducing Troubleshooting Time

The time required for Active Directory troubleshooting can be greatly decreased by SmartProfiler.

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SmartProfiler FEATURES

Since 2019, SmartProfiler has undergone substantial progress. Several new features have been added to SmartProfiler.

  • Multi-Tenancy Support - Add AD, Azure, M365 Tenants
  • NIST/CIS GPO Settings Analyzer
  • Active Directory Permissions Analyzer
  • Active Directory Smart Queries
  • Create Custom Real-Time Monitoring Alerts
  • Add New Tests/Modules
  • Generate Custom Reports
  • Domain Controller Security Analyzer
  • GPO Settings Checker
  • Active Directory Issues Fixer
  • Active Directory Real-Time Monitoring
  • Create Custom AD Queries
  • Compare Assessments
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