On April 21, Semperis announced that Purple Knight—its free, community-driven Active Directory and Entra ID security assessment tool—now fully supports Microsoft Government Community Cloud High (GCC High) environments.
This milestone expansion ensures that the tens of thousands of U.S. federal civilian agencies, Department of Defense organizations, and defense industrial base contractors operating in GCC High can, for the first time, leverage the same industry-leading identity security assessment capabilities already trusted by more than 65,000 organizations worldwide.
The announcement comes at a critical moment for federal cybersecurity. In 2025, the Five Eyes Alliance—comprised of the U.S. National Security Agency, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, Australian Signals Directorate, Canadian Centre for Cyber Security, the United Kingdom’s National Cyber Security Centre and the New Zealand National Cyber Security Centre, updated the landmark joint advisory document Detecting and Mitigating Active Directory Compromises. The document includes threat mitigation guidance and recommends several tools to assess Active Directory security posture, including Purple Knight.
GCC High is the cloud environment purpose-built by Microsoft to meet the stringent FedRAMP High, ITAR, and DFARS compliance requirements that most government agencies must adhere to. Until now, federal agencies and defense organizations running GCC High tenants were unable to take advantage of Purple Knight’s Entra ID assessment scanning capabilities. Agencies could assess their on-premises Active Directory health but lacked the ability to extend that same assessment into their GCC High cloud identity environment.
That gap has now been closed, Semperis said.
“This is a gamechanger for agencies striving to meet the identity security requirements outlined by the Five Eyes guidance, Executive Order 14028, FISMA, and OMB Memorandum M-22-09—all of which demand that federal organizations adopt Zero Trust principles, harden identity systems, and continuously monitor for compromise,” said Jimmy McNary, Semperis vice president of federal solutions.
Source: Semperis
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