Platform / Active Directory
Surface 2 of 4 — Active Directory & On-Prem
Close the Post-Authentication Gap in AD, Without Touching the Schema
Adversaries don't need to break authentication when they can abuse what happens after it — lateral movement through Kerberos and NTLM, unauthorized LDAP queries, unmonitored service accounts sitting quietly with standing privileges. Whiteswan's lightweight endpoint agents inspect and enforce on-prem identity activity in-line, without modifying your AD schema or disrupting domain operations.
Windows and Linux endpoint agents. No AD schema changes.
The On-Prem Blind Spot
Authentication Was Never the Finish Line for Active Directory Either.
Roughly 90% of security incidents involve post-authentication vectors *. Active Directory is one of the oldest and most-targeted post-authentication environments in the enterprise — domain controller trusts, service accounts, and legacy protocols that were never built with continuous, in-line inspection in mind. A credential that passes authentication can move laterally, escalate privilege, and act largely unwatched until a SIEM alert fires after the fact.
The Mechanism
In-Line Endpoint Agents, Evaluating Every Action Against Policy.
Lightweight endpoint agents
Deployed on-prem (Windows, Linux), evaluating identity activity against Whiteswan's policy engine in-line — not sampling logs after the fact.
No AD schema modifications
Whiteswan does not require changes to your Active Directory schema, forest trusts, or domain controller configuration to operate.
Service account governance
On-prem service accounts — often running with static, highly privileged credentials and no session inspection — are discovered, mapped, and brought under the same policy engine as every other identity.
One engine, one trail
Active Directory activity is evaluated by the same decision engine that governs cloud identity and AI agents — not a separate ITDR point tool with its own console and its own log format.
Swipe →
| Capability | What It Addresses | Deployment |
|---|---|---|
| In-line endpoint agent evaluation | Post-authentication lateral movement | Windows / Linux, no schema change |
| Service account discovery & governance | Static, high-privilege on-prem accounts | Endpoint agent |
| Unified policy evaluation | Fragmented AD-specific tooling | Same engine as all four surfaces |
| Unified audit trail | Siloed AD logs | Aligned to SOC 2, ISO 27001, DORA |
Deployment
Modernize Active Directory Without Replacing It.
Whiteswan's endpoint agents run alongside your existing AD infrastructure. There is no forklift migration, no schema rewrite, and no requirement to change how your domain controllers operate. The agent becomes an additional, in-line enforcement layer — not a replacement for the directory itself.
Verified in Production
What This Surface Has Already Delivered
"Identity discovery on endpoints and granular access control gave us a materially reduced attack surface."
— Kamalesh Kumar, Manager IT, MG Contractors Pvt. Ltd, Panchkula
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