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A holistic health assessment for your Active Directory

The Ravenswood^SM AD Health Check (ADHC) Tool is a comprehensive solution rooted in decades of practice. It assesses risk in three key areas of your AD – configuration, security, and operational procedures – and creates a snapshot of your overall health and security posture. The expertise of our team, coupled with a very detailed report about the health of your AD, will help you optimize your AD environment, increase its security, and support prioritization of items that need to be addressed.

[What we do]

Identity done intelligently

We literally wrote the book on Active Directory. We’ll give you full control over your identity management process.

Security in safe hands

Feeling confident your environment is safe is priceless. Our consulting team members are experts in designing secure, hardened infrastructure.

Masters at mobility

Mobility brings your team enormous productivity potential. We’ll ensure you get the benefits without the inherent risks.

Customized compliance plan

We design solutions that help you stay compliant so you can focus on what really matters.

[What our clients say]

"Ravenswood’s technical expertise, exceptional responsiveness, attention to detail, and willingness to go above and beyond have made collaboration seamless and enjoyable."

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Confidential Chemicals Manufacturing Client

[From the blog]

Monitoring for LDAP Client Security

Thomas Garrity
| March 16, 2022

Applications that use Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) are prevalent in virtually every organization that uses Active Directory (AD). Unfortunately, the default AD configuration provides opportunities for insecure LDAP connections. [...]

Introduction to Azure AD B2C Custom Policies

Andy Schneider
| March 9, 2022

Azure AD B2C offers authentication as a service. Knowing the trade-offs between out-of-the-box user flows and custom policies can be a huge advantage. [...]

A Farewell to Viral Tenants

David Conners
| January 12, 2022

Microsoft announced that after October 31, 2021, viral Azure Active Directory tenants would no longer be created for B2B collaboration. [...]

Identifying Inactive Users in a Remote Hybrid World

David Conners
| November 4, 2021

Inactive accounts that aren’t disabled in a timely manner threaten your AD environment. Cleanup of these accounts is crucial to keeping an organization secure. [...]

Enhancing Your Zero-Trust Security Strategy with Conditional Access Authentication Context

Brian Desmond
| October 19, 2021

Deciding who can access data is a key part of zero-trust. With Azure AD authentication contexts and other tools, you can do exactly this. [...]

Fun with ADSI: Shortcuts for Binding to Active Directory Objects

David Conners
| October 6, 2021

Shortcuts for when you’re building scripts to work with AD or working on servers with limited access to tools. [...]

Password Spray Attack Defense with Entra ID

Brian Desmond
| September 23, 2021

Until passwordless authentication is a more viable option, we must take steps to defend against password spray attacks. Azure Active Directory can help. [...]

Entra ID Connect Installation with Granular Permissions

Ravenswood Contributor
| September 16, 2021

Azure Active Directory Connect (AADC) installation creates a set of permissions that in most cases does not follow the concept of least privilege. [...]