Alternatives to PingCastle
Active Directory security assessment tool that scores risky configuration. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
PingCastle
Active Directory security assessment tool that scores risky configuration.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as PingCastle.
Purple Knight
A free Windows tool that assesses Active Directory, Entra ID and Okta for security weaknesses.
Purple Knight is free and also closed source, extending the assessment to Entra ID and Okta with more than 230 indicators mapped to MITRE ATT&CK.
BloodHound Community Edition
Maps attack paths through Active Directory and Entra ID relationships.
BloodHound Community Edition maps Active Directory and Entra ID attack paths as a graph, open source but with a graph database stack to set up.
ADRecon
A PowerShell script that gathers Active Directory information and builds an Excel report of the environment.
ADRecon is an open-source PowerShell script producing an Excel report of the domain, documenting AD rather than scoring risk.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Specops Password Auditor
A free Windows tool that audits Active Directory passwords for weak, reused and compromised credentials.
Certipy
Audit Active Directory Certificate Services configurations.
SharpHound
A C# collector that gathers Active Directory data for attack path analysis in BloodHound.
ADAudit Plus
A Windows auditing tool that tracks changes in Active Directory, file servers, Windows servers and workstations.
Netwrix Auditor Community Edition
A free edition of Netwrix Auditor that tracks changes in Active Directory, file servers and Windows.
Microsoft Security Compliance Toolkit
Microsoft tools and security baselines for analyzing, testing and comparing Windows security configurations.
