We are excited to announce that PingCastle has been acquired by Netwrix!
Netwrix understands that commercial acquisitions of open source solutions can create concerns within the community. We are committed to actively stewarding the project and maintaining the availability of the open source edition.
PingCastle has a long history of offering both open source and commercial editions. Netwrix is not only committed to preserving the open source project but also increasing development resources to enhance both the open source and commercial versions with new features and capabilities.
Netwrix, an industry leader in Active Directory security solutions and other cybersecurity solutions, ensures a brighter digital future for more than 13,500 customers worldwide. Netwrix empowers security professionals to face digital threats with confidence by enabling them to identify and protect sensitive data as well as to detect, respond to, and recover from attacks.
We welcome all PingCastle users: open source contributors, IT admins, and security professionals, to get involved and help shape the future of PingCastle.
- Join the Netwrix Community: community.netwrix.com Get announcements, view the roadmap, submit feature ideas, and connect with other users.
- Contribute on GitHub github.com/netwrix/pingcastle Submit pull requests, review open issues, or explore the codebase.
The threat landscape for Active Directory security continues to evolve at a rapid pace. Well-known tools like mimikatz and resources such as adsecurity.org have exposed and popularized numerous vulnerabilities that organizations must address.
PingCastle provides a streamlined approach to evaluating Active Directory security using a comprehensive risk assessment methodology and maturity framework. Rather than pursuing exhaustive evaluation at the expense of efficiency, PingCastle delivers the optimal balance—identifying 80% of critical security issues while requiring just 20% of the time and effort of traditional assessment methods.
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O"---O To find out more about PingCastle, visit https://www.pingcastle.com
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- Open-source community, visit https://github.com/netwrix/pingcastle/issues
- Customers, visit https://www.netwrix.com/support.html
What do you want to do?
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Using interactive mode.
Do not forget that there are other command line switches like --help that you can use
1-healthcheck-Score the risk of a domain
2-azuread -Score the risk of AzureAD
3-conso -Aggregate multiple reports into a single one
4-carto -Build a map of all interconnected domains
5-scanner -Perform specific security checks on workstations
6-export -Export users or computers
7-advanced -Open the advanced menu
0-Exit
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This is the main functionnality of PingCastle. In a matter of minutes, it produces a report which will give you an overview of your Active Directory security. This report can be generated on other domains by using the existing trust links.
Check https://www.pingcastle.com for the documentation and methodology
PingCastle is a c# project which can be built from Visual Studio 2012 to Visual Studio 2022.
For reporting bugs or requesting features in the open source edition of PingCastle, we recommend using the Netwrix Community. Alternatively, you can submit an issue on GitHub.
Customers of a commercially available edition should contact Netwrix technical support.
Additionally, both open source users and customers can visit the Netwrix Community to ask questions, suggest improvements, and stay updated on the latest developments.
PingCastle is available under two licensing options:
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Open Source Edition: Licensed under the Non-Profit Open Software License ("Non-Profit OSL") 3.0.
- Organizations may use PingCastle internally without purchasing a license, even in for-profit companies.
- This includes usage by a company's own IT staff or their contracted IT service providers.
- You cannot monetize PingCastle or offer it as a paid service to others under this license.
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Commercial License: Available for purchase.
- Required for anyone who wants to incorporate PingCastle into commercial services or products.
- Necessary if you plan to generate revenue by providing PingCastle-based services to other organizations.
In summary: Use it freely for internal purposes; purchase a license if you plan to make money from it.
PingCastle uses the following open source components:
- Bootstrap licensed under the MIT license
- JQuery licensed under the MIT license
- vis.js licensed under the MIT license
- popper.js licensed under the MIT license
- Bootstrap Table licensed under the MIT license
- FodyWeavers licensed under the MIT license
- General Contact: PingCastle.Contact@netwrix.com
