The Self-Healing Directory: Architecting AI-Driven Security for Active Directory

For over two decades, Active Directory (AD) has been the “central nervous system” of enterprise IT. It manages who gets in, what they can access, and when. Because of this centrality, it is the single most valuable target for an attacker. If you control AD, you control the organization.

The traditional security architecture for AD — SIEM logs, manual audits, and rule-based alerts — is broken. It generates too much noise (alert fatigue) and reacts too slowly (long dwell times). Modern attacks like Kerberoasting or “living off the land” use legitimate tools (such as PowerShell) to blend in, making signature-based detection ineffective.