Active Directory and file-server security platform with compliance automation
Lepide secures file servers and Active Directory environments through audit, classification, and access-control tooling. The stack is Windows-native (.NET, C#, SQL, Active Directory APIs) with emerging AI analytics capabilities — supported by a sales-led hiring push (5 open roles in sales vs. 4 in engineering) and three concurrent projects addressing outbound motion, test infrastructure, and AI-backed alerting. Pain points cluster around unstructured-data protection and compliance gaps, suggesting the product is expanding beyond pure directory auditing into broader data governance.
Lepide builds data security and governance solutions for mid-market enterprises, with primary focus on Active Directory, file servers, and email systems (Exchange, SharePoint). The platform combines audit and compliance reporting (pre-configured templates for GDPR, PCI) with real-time threat detection and access-control analysis. Founded in 2005 and based in East Sussex, the company operates as a lean, privately held team across the UK, US, and India. Their approach targets organizations that need enterprise-grade security controls without enterprise licensing costs.
Lepide's core stack is .NET (C#, ASP.NET, WPF), SQL, and Windows-native APIs (Active Directory, Group Policy, Windows Server). Testing uses Jest, Mocha, Selenium, and JMeter. Version control via Git and GitHub. Development environments include Visual Studio and GitHub Copilot.
Three major initiatives: building an outbound sales function, developing test-management and reporting tooling, and building AI-backed analytics, alerting, and monitoring capabilities for customer environments.
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