Two products from Quest Software, a Texas-based data management, cybersecurity and platform modernization company, have cleared Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program High authorization and are now available through Microsoft Azure Government. The products, Quest Identity Defense and Quest Identity Recovery for Entra ID, cover opposite ends of the identity security problem: one monitors for threats before they spread, the other restores identity systems after an attack has already caused damage.
FedRAMP High sits at the top tier of the US government's cloud security certification framework, covering systems that handle data whose exposure could cause severe harm to government operations. Reaching that tier requires meeting a substantially larger set of controls than lower-level certifications and is the threshold typically required for systems processing sensitive unclassified information inside federal civilian agencies and Department of Defense environments.
Quest Identity Defense monitors hybrid environments spanning on-premises Active Directory and cloud-based Microsoft Entra ID for exposure, prioritizes risk tied to privileged access accounts and contains threats before they move across the identity layer. Quest Identity Recovery gives organizations a tested path to restore Active Directory and Entra ID after ransomware, administrative error or destructive change, with the goal of recovering identity trust rather than just infrastructure.
Tod Weber, President and General Manager of Quest Software Public Sector, Inc., described the threat environment driving demand for higher-assurance identity tools: "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. With our FedRAMP Class D (High) solution, Quest now gives customers more peace of mind in their identity systems that demand mission-critical assurance."
The two newly certified products sit within Quest's Security Management Platform, which the company describes as a unified, AI-powered platform for identity threat detection and response and secure Microsoft identity modernization. The platform's scope is expanding: Quest recently acquired Anetac, an AI-powered security company, with plans to integrate its capabilities into the platform. The FedRAMP High certification applies to Quest Identity Defense and Quest Identity Recovery specifically, not to Anetac's technology, which has not yet been integrated.
Beyond federal agencies and Department of Defense organizations, Quest identified regulated industries including healthcare, financial services and energy as the primary target market for the certified offering, alongside state and local government, educational institutions and Defense Industrial Base organizations handling controlled unclassified information and export-controlled technical data.
