Is EtcSec really free?
Yes. The trial is fully free — no credit card, no signup, no hidden limits on the audit itself. If you want to keep the report past 7 days you can create a free EtcSec account.
Free · No signup · 7-day expiry
Run an anonymous, browser-based audit across 498 detectors covering Active Directory and Microsoft Entra ID. No credit card, no tenant changes.
498 detectors · 340 AD + 158 Entra ID · No credit card · Read-only collector · GDPR compliant · Results expire in 7 days
No signup. Deploy one binary, get findings in under 2 minutes.
Connects to your AD (LDAP/LDAPS) or Entra ID (Graph API) in read-only, collects findings in 60-120 seconds.
Drop your ad_hc_*.xml file. Optionally add the HTML report for affected entity lists.
Pick the XML report above.
Everything a PingCastle or Purple Knight report gives you — plus Entra ID coverage, MITRE mapping and remediation previews, rendered in your browser.
Weighted score based on critical and high-severity findings across AD and Entra ID, comparable to your peers.
Every detected weakness, sorted by severity and exploitability, with affected users / computers / groups.
Each finding mapped to tactics and techniques so you can brief a SOC or red team in plain language.
Copy-ready PowerShell / Graph scripts for the top findings so you can fix the obvious ones before the meeting.
Executive-ready PDF with severity breakdown, top findings and compliance mapping — no watermark.
ANSSI, NIS2, HDS, ISO 27001 mappings on every finding so you can feed audit files without re-keying.
One-shot AD + Entra ID audits — what the market looks like today
| Feature | EtcSec Trial | PingCastle | Purple Knight | Semperis DSP |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Active Directory support | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Entra ID support | Yes | No | Yes | Partial |
| Agent-less | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| Browser-native (no install) | Yes | No | No | No |
| Time to report | < 2 min | 5–15 min | 10–30 min | 15–60 min |
| License | Free | Free | Free (download) | Commercial |
| Signup required | No | No | Form | Contact sales |
Yes. The trial is fully free — no credit card, no signup, no hidden limits on the audit itself. If you want to keep the report past 7 days you can create a free EtcSec account.
Credentials are encrypted in memory during the audit and wiped immediately after. They are never written to disk. The collector is read-only and open source — you can audit what it does.
PingCastle is a free AD-only scanner you download and run locally. EtcSec Trial runs in the browser, covers Entra ID as well, produces a ranked report with MITRE ATT&CK mapping and compliance annotations, and needs no install. You can also import an existing PingCastle XML/HTML into the trial if you already ran one.
A read-only Microsoft Graph application with Directory.Read.All and UserAuthenticationMethod.Read.All. No password-reset, no write scopes, no Conditional Access changes.
Yes — PDF export is available on trial reports. Sign up for a free account to keep exports past 7 days and track your score over time.
7 days. After that, all trial data is auto-purged and the share link stops working. To keep your findings, create a free account during the 7-day window using the 'Save this report' button on the report page.