Cyber attacks are evolving. From ransomware to compromised credentials and increasingly autonomous AI-driven threats, attackers are finding new ways to target the identity layer that sits at the heart of every organisation. According to Quest Software, identity-related threats are now involved in the vast majority of cyber incidents, making secure, rapid recovery more critical than ever.

To help organisations regain control when prevention isn’t enough, Quest Software has introduced Secure Replay, an innovative new capability designed to transform how businesses recover from attacks impacting Active Directory and Microsoft Entra ID environments. Currently available in private preview, Secure Replay helps organisations recover to a known-good state without the compromises traditionally associated with disaster recovery.

The traditional recovery challenge

For years, organisations have faced a difficult choice following a cyber attack.

Do you restore from a backup and risk bringing malicious changes back into your environment? Or do you roll back to an older recovery point and potentially lose hours, days, or even weeks of legitimate business activity?

This recovery trade-off has become increasingly problematic as environments grow more complex and identity systems become the primary target for attackers. Active Directory remains the control plane for most organisations, governing access across users, devices, applications and increasingly AI-driven identities. When that foundation is compromised, the impact can be widespread.

Introducing Secure Replay

Secure Replay aims to eliminate that compromise.

Rather than simply restoring a historical backup, Secure Replay uses AI-driven analysis to distinguish between legitimate operational changes and those introduced by an attacker. This allows organisations to recover towards their last known safe state while preserving valid business activity that occurred prior to the incident.

In practical terms, this means security and IT teams can:

• Pinpoint the exact moment suspicious activity began.
• Identify malicious changes made to Active Directory.
• Remove compromised accounts, configurations and unwanted changes.
• Preserve legitimate activity that occurred before the attack.
• Reinstate a clean, trusted identity environment with confidence.

The result is a more precise recovery process that reduces downtime, limits disruption and helps organisations get back to business faster.

Built for modern identity threats

Today’s security challenges extend beyond traditional user accounts. Organisations must now manage a growing number of human, non-human and AI-driven identities, each representing a potential attack surface. As AI agents gain increased access and autonomy within enterprise environments, the need for visibility, control and recovery becomes even more important.

Secure Replay forms part of Quest’s broader identity security strategy, helping organisations not only detect and respond to threats, but also recover effectively when an incident occurs. Instead of relying on conventional backup technologies that weren’t designed to understand the identity layer, Quest provides capabilities specifically built to protect and restore Active Directory and Entra ID environments.

Why this matters for partners and their customers

For MSPs, security providers and IT teams, recovery readiness is becoming just as important as prevention.

Many organisations continue to invest heavily in threat detection and response, yet recovery planning remains an overlooked area of cyber resilience. When identity systems are compromised, the ability to recover quickly can significantly reduce operational disruption, customer impact and financial risk. Quest’s own research found that more than 75% of organisations lack a tested recovery plan, creating a major resilience gap.

Secure Replay helps close that gap by offering a more intelligent, more surgical approach to recovery. Instead of choosing between data loss and security risk, organisations gain a pathway to recover quickly while maintaining confidence in the integrity of their environment.

How Climb can help

At Climb, we work closely with Quest to help partners and their customers strengthen identity security, improve cyber resilience and prepare for the realities of modern threats.

Whether you’re looking to assess your current Active Directory recovery strategy, explore Quest’s identity security portfolio, or understand how Secure Replay could fit into your customers’ environments, our team can help. Drawing on Quest’s market-leading expertise in Active Directory recovery and identity protection, we can support solution design, enablement, go-to-market planning and technical discussions.

As identity continues to become the primary battleground for cyber attacks, having a tested recovery strategy is no longer optional. Secure Replay represents an exciting step forward, helping organisations recover smarter, faster and with greater confidence.

Get Started

Want to learn more about Quest’s Secure Replay and how it can support your customers’ cyber resilience strategy?

Get in touch with Lucy Taylor, Vendor Manager for Quest at Climb, on the details below to discuss how Secure Replay can help organisations recover from identity-based attacks with confidence.