Hybrid Identity Assessment & Remediation
Assess risks spanning Active Directory, Microsoft Entra ID, synchronization, authentication and privileged access.
Most enterprise identity environments no longer operate Active Directory and Microsoft Entra ID independently.
Synchronization, authentication, privileged access, devices, certificates and recovery create dependencies across both environments.
This assessment examines those dependencies as one identity system.
What we assess
Active Directory
- Domain and forest health
- Replication and DNS
- Domain controller configuration
- Privileged groups and administrative exposure
- Authentication protocols
- Delegation and trust relationships
Hybrid identity
- Microsoft Entra Connect
- Microsoft Entra Cloud Sync
- Synchronization scope and topology
- Authentication model
- Password synchronization
- Hybrid identity infrastructure security
- Operational resilience
Microsoft Entra ID
- Administrative roles
- Privileged access
- Authentication methods
- Conditional Access foundations
- Emergency access
- Identity protection configuration
Device and authentication trust
- Microsoft Entra join
- Hybrid join
- Windows Hello for Business
- Cloud Kerberos Trust
- Certificate dependencies
Resilience
- Identity recovery dependencies
- Synchronization recovery
- Domain controller resilience
- Emergency administrative access
What you receive
- Technical assessment
- Prioritized findings
- Risk explanation
- Evidence summary
- Recommended remediation
- Remediation roadmap
- Validation after remediation
Example public finding
This is an illustrative example, not a finding from a customer assessment.
HIA-017 — Hybrid synchronization infrastructure has excessive administrative exposure
Observation
The synchronization infrastructure is capable of affecting identities across both on-premises Active Directory and Microsoft Entra ID, but administrative access is not isolated to the same degree as other control-plane systems.
Why it matters
A compromise of hybrid identity infrastructure can affect trust across both identity environments.
Recommended direction
Treat synchronization infrastructure as a privileged control-plane workload. Restrict administrative access, separate privileged administration from normal productivity activity, review authentication exposure, and establish a documented recovery path.
Public methodology
Public material may include:
- Assessment domains
- High-level control families
- Finding structure
- Sanitized sample findings
- Sample report
- Selected read-only checks
- Microsoft reference material
Environment-specific assessment details and remediation guidance are provided within the agreed project scope.