Quest Software has introduced a new Security Management Platform that brings together identity threat detection and response, recovery, and migration for Microsoft environments. The launch reflects a broader shift in identity security: firms are looking beyond detection alone and towards platforms that can also support resilience, recovery, and lower-risk modernization.
The company is positioning the platform around a practical problem many organizations face as identity becomes a more exposed control point. Hybrid Microsoft estates, the expansion of non-human identities, and wider AI adoption are increasing the volume and complexity of identity-related risk. In that context, Quest is combining threat management with secure migration and disaster recovery, aiming to reduce the operational gaps that can appear during periods of change such as cloud transitions, mergers, or infrastructure modernization.
Identity remains a growing attack surface, but recovery readiness is often less mature than detection. Quest points to its own research showing that more than 75 percent of global organizations do not test identity recovery often enough. It also cites the rapid growth of non-human identities, which it says now outnumber human identities by an estimated 82:1 ratio. Against that backdrop, the new platform is designed to give organizations broader visibility across identities, faster incident response, and a more structured way to recover critical services after an attack.
“AI fundamentally threatens the identity landscape at a level never before seen, and one thing is clear – identity security must include rapid recovery, not just detection and response,” said Michael Laudon, Chief Product and Technology Officer at Quest Software. “The Quest Security Management Platform delivers solutions that address how identity risk actually occurs within organizations – across daily operations, active attacks, and during high-risk moments of change such as AI adoption amid migration and modernization. By unifying our industry-leading solutions into one modern platform, customers no longer need multiple solutions to protect their most important assets.”
Two new capabilities sit at the centre of the release. Quest Identity Defence is described as an AI-powered security layer for hybrid Active Directory and Entra ID environments. It is intended to identify identity risk continuously, block unauthorized changes to critical Tier 0 assets, and improve visibility across both human and non-human identities. The emphasis is on making investigation and remediation more manageable in complex hybrid estates.
Quest Identity Recovery extends that focus into resilience. The offering is positioned as a hybrid Active Directory and Entra ID recovery solution that can restore identity services more quickly after a ransomware incident. A new Standby Active Directory Forest provisioning feature is intended to automate the creation of recovery environments, strengthening disaster recovery preparedness rather than treating recovery as a separate downstream process.
The platform also incorporates On Demand Migration, Quest’s Microsoft 365 certified tenant-to-tenant migration technology, covering Exchange, OneDrive, SharePoint, Teams, as well as Active Directory and Entra ID. That inclusion is notable because migration is often one of the periods when identity controls are under the most strain. Folding migration into the same platform as detection and recovery suggests Quest is framing modernization itself as a security and resilience issue, not just an infrastructure project.
Quest says the overall platform aligns with the National Institute of Standards and Technology Cybersecurity Framework 2.0 and Gartner recommendations. Structurally, it groups the offering into two main solution areas: Quest Secure Migration, which focuses on modernization with a security-first approach, and Quest Identity Security and Resilience, which is positioned as a full Identity Threat Detection and Response capability spanning prevention, detection, response, and recovery.
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