Legal regulations concerning cybersecurity requirements, including the KSC (National Cybersecurity System) which transposes the NIS2 Directive into Polish law, establish a framework for cybersecurity accountability, strengthen organizations’ obligations regarding risk and incident management, and enhance the resilience of critical services.
Silverfort addresses these requirements by securing the weakest link in many organizations—the identity layer—by enforcing MFA (Multi-Factor Authentication), privileged access control, service account protection, and monitoring of identity usage in on-premises, cloud, and legacy system environments.
Why is identity a target of cyberattacks?
Silverfort positions its solution around a single issue: identity has become the primary target of cyberattacks, and traditional security mechanisms do not block all access paths.
In hybrid environments, vulnerabilities remain in service accounts, legacy apps, consoles, Windows accounts, and industrial and infrastructure resources.
That is precisely why Silverfort provides agentless and proxy-free protection, extending control to areas where traditional tools fall short.
What does Silverfort do?
Silverfort combines detection, analysis, and enforcement of identity security policies within a unified identity protection model.
The solution extends MFA and Conditional Access to on-premises systems, integrates with Microsoft Entra ID, and allows you to centrally apply policies to resources that were not previously covered by native protection.
Microsoft and Silverfort documentation also mentions AD bridging to Entra ID, which allows on-premises resources to be represented as enterprise app objects and protected by Entra policies.
What do the case studies show?
- Health Care: Kayak Hospital
The healthcare sector operates under pressure to ensure service continuity, protect sensitive data, and minimize the risk of downtime, as any incident can affect patient safety and service availability. In such an environment, robust access control, rapid response to account compromises, and the ability to protect even older applications and administrative tools are of the utmost importance.
In the Kayak Hospital Silverfort case study, Silverfort helped extend MFA to on-premises applications and CLI (Command Line Interface) access, and provided real-time protection for service accounts. This is important because, in practice, these areas are the most difficult to secure using traditional methods, yet they often represent the weakest link in a healthcare environment. The business value here is very concrete: greater control over administrative access, fewer vulnerabilities in the legacy environment, and a lower risk of disruption to critical systems.
- Cyber Insurance: Optix
The insurance sector—and particularly the area of cyber risk insurance—is heavily dependent on evidence of security controls and on whether an organization can meet the insurer’s requirements. For companies such as Optix, compliance with MFA requirements is no longer just a matter of security, but also a condition for maintaining insurance coverage.
In the case of Optix, the requirement was to implement MFA for all access requests by domain administrators in order to renew the cybersecurity policy. After implementing Silverfort, the organization renewed its policy, and two months later, the platform helped detect an attempt at lateral movement and immediately block access for a user whose credentials had been compromised. This demonstrates a very tangible business benefit: Silverfort not only „helps meet compliance requirements” but also provides a mechanism for real protection against an incident that could result in financial, operational, and insurance losses.
- Produced by: Reliance Worldwide Corporation
The manufacturing sector is particularly vulnerable to ransomware, as production downtime can result in direct operational and logistical losses. In such an environment, it is crucial to limit the ability of an attack to spread, especially through privileged accounts and administrative tools used to move across the network.
Silverfort at Reliance Worldwide Corporation was used to extend MFA in Azure Active Directory and on the CLI (Command Line Interface), which helped reduce the risk of lateral movement and ransomware-related damage. The company also highlighted the ability to apply MFA controls to various types of authentication and administrative tools, such as PowerShell and PsExec, which is crucial because these are often exploited after an account has been compromised. From a business perspective, this translates to greater operational resilience: even if a single identity is compromised, it is more difficult for an attack to spread to other resources.
Common denominator
In each of these examples, Silverfort solves the same type of problem, but in a different business context: in healthcare, it’s about data continuity and protection; in insurance, it’s about meeting regulatory requirements and maintaining policies; and in manufacturing, it’s about stopping ransomware and minimizing downtime. The common thread is simple: an organization does not need to overhaul its entire infrastructure to begin enforcing identity and access controls.
Why are AD, Entra ID, and GPO important?
AD and Entra ID are the natural backbone of the environmentFrom Microsoft, so without their security integration, it remains fragmented.
In practice, Silverfort allows you to extend policies to Windows logins, local and hybrid resources, and paths that typically require workarounds or separate tools.
In operational scenarios, this means fewer exceptions, fewer manual workarounds, and a better chance of consistent access policies across the entire organization.
Is this solution right for me?
Silverfort delivers the greatest value in environments where an organization has a hybrid identity plane, a large number of service accounts, so-called legacy resources, and strict Zero Trust requirements.
This is particularly important for companies and institutions that need to improve their resilience against lateral movement attacks, strengthen AD hygiene, and extend MFA to resources that are difficult to protect.
If an organization wants to effectively secure identity protection without having to rebuild its applications, Silverfort is one of the most straightforward ways to achieve that goal.
Need a consultation? Schedule a demo: https://outlook.office.com/book/MeetingswithISCGExperts@ISCG.onmicrosoft.com/s/4OIyaXg2FECLomR4u85ATw2?ismsaljsauthenabled
Source of case studies: Silverfort