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Quest Software Launches the Quest Security Management Platform — Market's First Unified AI-Powered ITDR and Microsoft Identity Modernisation Solution

Cyber Security  /  Foundational Security  |  4 min read

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Quest Software (Austin, Texas), a global leader in data management, cybersecurity, and platform modernisation — serving more than 45,000 companies including over 90% of the Fortune 500 — has launched the Quest Security Management Platform: the market's first unified, AI-powered platform that brings together Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR) and secure Microsoft identity modernisation in a single architecture. The platform unifies identity threat detection, recovery, and secure migration — providing organisations with AI-driven visibility into non-human identities, always-ready disaster recovery capabilities, and a security-first approach to Microsoft identity migration. It is designed to address a rapidly changing threat landscape driven simultaneously by AI adoption, non-human identity growth, and hybrid infrastructure expansion. The platform aligns with the NIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0 and Gartner recommendations, removing reliance on fragmented tools across the identity security stack.

"AI fundamentally threatens the identity landscape at a level never before seen, and one thing is clear — identity security must include rapid recovery, not just detection and response. The Quest Security Management Platform delivers solutions that address how identity risk actually occurs within organisations — across daily operations, active attacks, and during high-risk moments of change such as AI adoption amid migration and modernisation. By unifying our industry-leading solutions into one modern platform, customers no longer need multiple solutions to protect their most important assets."

— Michael Laudon, Chief Product and Technology Officer, Quest Software

The Threat Context — Non-Human Identities and the Recovery Gap

The Quest Security Management Platform directly addresses two converging structural vulnerabilities in enterprise identity security. The first is the explosion of non-human identities: service accounts, AI agents, automated workloads, and similar entities now outnumber human identities by an estimated 82:1 ratio — yet most enterprise security stacks were designed for human identity management and have not caught up. The second is the recovery gap: Quest's annual State of ITDR research finds that more than 75% of global organisations do not test identity recovery frequently enough, leaving them vulnerable to attacks that could cost millions in business downtime and recovery costs — and 24% never practise disaster recovery at all. Identity has become the primary attack surface, yet many organisations rely on security offerings providing only detection controls with limited recovery options. High-risk moments of change — migrations, mergers and acquisitions, AI adoption, platform modernisation — further expose critical gaps in threat prevention, security, and recovery readiness. AI is accelerating both the scale and sophistication of attacks, compounding these structural vulnerabilities simultaneously.

Platform Components — Identity Security, Recovery, and Secure Migration

The Quest Security Management Platform organises its capabilities into two core solutions. Quest Identity Security and Resilience is a complete ITDR solution covering the full identity attack lifecycle for Microsoft Active Directory and Entra ID — controlling prevention, detection, response, and recovery. It includes two new capabilities: Quest Identity Defense — an AI-powered hybrid AD and Entra ID security solution that continuously identifies identity risk, blocks unauthorised changes to critical Tier 0 assets, instantly contains attacks, and provides AI-driven analysis across human and non-human identities for simplified investigation and remediation. And Quest Identity Recovery — a hybrid AD and Entra ID recovery solution that restores identity services up to 90% faster after ransomware attacks, now featuring Standby Active Directory Forest provisioning — automated creation of always-ready recovery environments. Quest has already improved mean time to response by 44% through this capability. Quest Secure Migration is the industry's only security-first, end-to-end approach to modernising identities, devices, tenants, and workloads — treating migration as the security event it actually is, not a one-time IT project. It includes On Demand Migration, a Microsoft 365 certified tenant-to-tenant migration solution securing and simplifying consolidation of Exchange, OneDrive, SharePoint, and Teams, as well as Active Directory and Entra ID.

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