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New certification reinforces Quest’s leadership in identity security and resilience, enabling federal and regulated organizations to protect and recover the identity control plane with the highest level of government-grade assurance
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AUSTIN, Texas, July 08, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Quest Software, a global leader in data management, cybersecurity, and platform modernization, today announced that its Quest Identity Defense and Quest Identity Recovery for Entra ID products are now available through a Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP®) High authorized offering in Microsoft Azure Government. Quest is the only purpose-built identity threat detection and response (ITDR) provider for hybrid Active Directory and Microsoft Entra ID to offer a FedRAMP High authorized SaaS offering, giving federal agencies, defense contractors, and regulated organizations a higher-assurance path to unify identity defense and recovery for hybrid Active Directory and Entra ID environments. To learn more, visit quest.com
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Identity has become the primary attack surface as organizations face increasing risk from AI-driven exploitation, credential and ransomware-based attacks. Quest’s achievement of the FedRAMP High offering addresses a critical gap that many regulated industries need, helping organizations detect identity threats, but also protect, contain, and recover identity systems with confidence in high-security environments.
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“There has been a rapid rise in AI-driven threats that is allowing attackers the ability to find unique vulnerabilities, giving them easier access to an organization’s crown jewels – and that is the identity layer,” said Tod Weber, President and General Manager, Quest Software Public Sector, Inc. “With our FedRAMP Class D (High) solution, Quest now gives customers more peace of mind in their identity systems that demand mission-critical assurance.”
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Quest’s Identity Defense and Identity Recovery capabilities are part of the Quest Security Management Platform, the market’s first unified, AI-powered platform for Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR) and secure Microsoft identity modernization. Quest Identity Defense helps customers discover identity exposure, prioritize Tier 0 risk, proactively contain threats, and protect critical identity assets. Quest Identity Recovery gives customers a tested path to restore identity trust after ransomware, destructive change, or administrative compromise.
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Advancing Identity Security for the Most Critical Environments
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The FedRAMP High authorization represents one of the most rigorous security standards for SaaS solutions, supporting the protection of highly sensitive government and regulated data.
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With this offering, Quest empowers:
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- Highly regulated industries including healthcare, financial services, and energy
- Federal civilian and Department of Defense agencies requiring FedRAMP High SaaS security
- State, local, and education institutions adopting government-grade assurance models
- Defense Industrial Base organizations supporting CUI, ITAR, and mission-critical workloads
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The Quest Security Management Platform, and soon to be integrated following Quest’s acquisition of AI-powered security pioneer, Anetac, addresses the challenges that all organizations face in defending critical environments from attackers by offering a unified approach to identity security. Adding FedRAMP High certification to two of its products within the platform gives customers a more comprehensive identity security and resilience offering spanning protection, containment, and recovery across hybrid environments.
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