Active Directory Forest Recovery Platform

Reduce time to recover AD after a cyberattack by up to 90%

 

Restoring AD Made Easy In Clicks

Widespread attacks that exploit Active Directory can cripple your organization. When a ransomware or wiper attack takes out domain controllers, recovering your AD forest can drag on for days or even weeks, risking malware re-infection in the process. But with SMSAM's Active Directory Forest Recovery Platfrom (ADFRP), you’ll be back in business in minutes or hours rather than days or weeks.

Features

Purpose-built to combat cyber disasters

Malware-proof your backups

Confidently restore to your most recent backup, even if domain controllers were infected when backups were taken. No need for trial-and-error restores in search of clean backups. No rebuilding AD from scratch. Minimize the impact of AD outages and quickly get back to business.

Automate forest recovery

Recover an entire Active Directory forest with just a few clicks. Automate every aspect of the recovery process. Avoid human errors and reduce downtime to minutes instead of days or even weeks. Avert costly business interruptions.

Recover to any hardware

Confidently restore to your most recent backup, even if domain controllers were infected when backups were taken. No need for trial-and-error restores in search of clean backups. No rebuilding AD from scratch. Minimize the impact of AD outages and quickly get back to business.

Accelerate AD incident response

Recover an entire Active Directory forest with just a few clicks. Automate every aspect of the recovery process. Avoid human errors and reduce downtime to minutes instead of days or even weeks. Avert costly business interruptions.

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ADFR is the only backup and recovery solution purpose-built for recovering Active Directory from cyber disasters. ADFR fully automates the AD forest recovery process, reduces downtime, eliminates risk of malware reinfection, and enables post-breach forensics.

ADFR validates each backup rule when it’s created to ensure it can be used to generate a valid forest backup set. By default, the ADFR backup validation process checks to ensure there is at least one DC hosting each partition in the backup set. The status of the backup rule validation process is displayed in the Backup Settings page of the ADFR Administration portal.

 

Data protection solutions do not offer a cyber disaster recovery solution for Active Directory. They offer backup and recovery of individual domain controllers (DCs) and files. This is an important distinction, and one that applies to other backup vendors as well. Backup vendors can back up a DC, and they can restore a DC. But none can orchestrate the many steps required to correctly and successfully restore an AD forest.

In contrast, ADFR offers a fully automated forest recovery solution that enables you to recover AD even if DCs are infected or wiped out. ADFR automates every aspect of forest recovery, including cleaning up metadata, rebuilding the Global Catalog, and restructuring site topology. Manually rebuilding AD following a cyber incident is a time-consuming, error-prone process that can takes days or weeks.

When a backup set completes with an error or warning, ADFR automatically sends an email notification to designated recipients. In addition, you can opt into receiving email notifications for successful backups. The ADFR Administration portal also displays backup status information: 1) Dashboard provides a list of recent forest backup sets, showing both available and failed backups. 2) Backups Status & History page displays status details for each backup, including backups that failed and transfers of the backup to the distribution point that failed.

 

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