Why Active Directory is the identity problem CISOs cannot walk away from

Today’s security leaders often find themselves stuck between a rock and a hard place: Active Directory (AD) continues to be a foundational legacy infrastructure (in fact, 90% of the Fortune 1000 still uses AD ) but inherent technical debt, visibility gaps, and an inability to extend MFA to these legacy authentication paths have created a serious security gap that enterprising threat actors are actively targeting. Cisco recently surveyed 28 CISOs from around the world to better understand their concerns about the AD security dilemma. The consensus is that it would be impractical to walk away fr