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We protect, secure, and modernize your cloud, hybrid, and on-premises infrastructure, regardless of its age, complexity, or upkeep. Our internationally recognized experts provide simple, integrated solutions that maximize your investments, while responding to an ever-changing threat landscape.

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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."

Director, IT Global Security

Confidential Chemicals Manufacturing Client

[From the blog]

AD Roles: Enterprise Admins and Schema Admins

Andy Schneider
| September 7, 2021

The first domain in an AD forest is unique. There are two groups in this domain that we must be aware of: Enterprise Admins and Schema Admins. [...]

Protect Your Windows Network from the PetitPotam Exploit

Tony LaGrassa
| August 23, 2021

The PetitPotam exploit can be used to completely own an environment, with very few prerequisites—but mitigation is within reac [...]

Entra ID Connect Installation Strategies

Thomas Garrity
| July 29, 2021

If organizations don’t properly plan the synchronization solution for their cloud identities, which Microsoft calls Azure AD Connect, users will have poor experiences in the cloud. Because identity is central [...]

Where to Host Active Directory FSMO Roles

Ravenswood Contributor
| July 21, 2021

The size and complexity of the organization are critical factors when determining how and where to host FSMO roles. [...]

4 Essential Practices for Automating the Termination of Hybrid Users

Thomas Garrity
| July 1, 2021

When an identity from Active Directory (AD) is synchronized with a cloud-based identity platform such as Azure AD, those identities are classified as being hybrid. When user accounts are terminated [...]

Components of a PKI, Part 5: Hardware Security Modules

Miles Gratz
| June 23, 2021

Not all organizations require their own PKI solution; however, most leverage Microsoft Active Directory Certificate Services because it integrates directly with their existing Active Directory environment... [...]

Components of a PKI, Part 4: AD Certificate Services

Miles Gratz
| June 23, 2021

Components of a PKI, Part 3: Certificate Revocation

Miles Gratz
| June 16, 2021

One important function of Certificate Authorities that’s mentioned briefly in Part 2 of our “Components of a PKI” blog series is the ability to perform certificate revocation, or the CA’s [...]