Legacy infrastructure doesn’t have to mean legacy risk.
Lancashire County Council supports over 13,000 users across education, social care, and public infrastructure—services communities depend on every day. But beneath a modern cloud security posture lay a critical gap: on-prem Active Directory.
Extending MFA to legacy authentication protocols like RDP and SMB, without disrupting live public services, isn’t a simple lift. It demands precision, the right partner, and a platform purpose-built for exactly this kind of environment.
Working with Platinum partner BlueFort Security, Lancashire County Council deployed Silverfort across its complex AD environment, enforcing MFA on administrative access, eliminating blind spots around legacy protocol usage, and finally gaining clear visibility into service account activity that had gone unmonitored for years.
The result was stronger Identity Security controls, zero service disruption, and an IT team with the insight to act.
Read the full case study to discover:
- How Lancashire County Council enforced MFA across RDP and SMB sessions without disrupting critical public-facing applications
- Why legacy authentication protocols are one of the most overlooked attack surfaces in public sector environments and how to address them safely
- How service account analysis revealed accounts being used far beyond their original scope, enabling a controlled clean-up with no operational risk