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Who is Silverfort?
Silverfort is a cybersecurity company that provides an identity security platform focused on unified multi-factor authentication and access control across hybrid and multi-cloud enterprise environments.
- Unified identity security platform for hybrid, multi-cloud, and on-premises (on-prem) environments (identity and access management).
- Agentless and proxyless enforcement of multi-factor authentication and access policies for on-prem and cloud resources (access security).
- Protection for identities across Active Directory, cloud identity providers, privileged accounts, and service accounts (identity protection).
- Context-aware and risk-based access controls integrated with existing identity and security tools (zero trust access).
- Coverage for legacy systems, command-line tools, and administrative access that are not natively integrated with Multifactor Authentication (MFA) (infrastructure security).
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Silverfort provides an identity security platform (identity and access management) that enterprises use to centralize and enforce access controls across hybrid environments, including on-prem infrastructure, private data centers, and public cloud services. The platform focuses on extending multi-factor authentication and access policies to resources and protocols that are not protected by native identity tools, and on giving security and identity teams unified visibility into authentication activity.
The company’s technology is designed to integrate with existing identity providers such as Active Directory and cloud identity services, as well as Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) and other monitoring tools. Instead of deploying agents on endpoints or proxies in front of applications, Silverfort uses an agentless and proxyless architecture (access security) that interfaces with authentication protocols and directory services to observe and enforce access decisions. This approach is used to monitor and control access to servers, databases, network devices, administrative tools, and cloud workloads.
Silverfort’s platform applies multi-factor authentication (MFA) and conditional access policies (zero trust access) to a wide range of authentication flows, including those for privileged users, service accounts, and machine-to-machine access. Enterprises use these capabilities to reduce the risk of lateral movement, credential theft, and misuse of privileged access by enforcing verification steps and granular access rules when accounts access sensitive systems. The platform can apply these controls without requiring changes to the protected applications or protocols, which is relevant for legacy systems and command-line or remote administration tools that do not support modern MFA methods.
From a technology standpoint, Silverfort works with standard authentication and authorization mechanisms, including Kerberos, NTLM, RADIUS, and Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) or similar federation protocols where supported by the surrounding ecosystem. By monitoring authentication traffic and correlating identity context, the platform can trigger step-up authentication, block access, or allow access based on centrally defined policies. This supports enterprise zero trust strategies by enforcing context-aware decisions at authentication time for both human and non-human identities.
In an enterprise directory, Silverfort can be categorized under identity and access management, specifically in identity threat detection and response, MFA and adaptive authentication, and privileged access-related controls. Organizations deploy it alongside existing Identity Access Management (IAM) investments to extend coverage across on-prem and cloud systems, consolidate policy management, and address use cases such as securing administrative tools, protecting service accounts, and hardening access to critical infrastructure without extensive application refactoring.
Our description of Silverfort. Updated December 2025.
