IS Decisions makes it easier to protect the identity the world runs on with UserLock 13.0
UserLock 13.0 makes access security for Active Directory more intuitive than ever, giving IT more control, more visibility, and less complexity.
Published December 3, 2025)
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BIDART, France — December 3, 2025 — IS Decisions today announced UserLock 13.0, a major update to its identity and access management (IAM) solution — purpose-built for on-premises and hybrid Active Directory environments. The redesigned interface and security enhancements make protecting Active Directory identities simpler, faster, and more secure by design. IT teams can now enforce policies, manage sessions, and stay audit-ready with ease, all without adding complexity.
“It’s a very unsexy thing for a tech founder to say, but most of the world still runs on Active Directory,” said François Amigorena, CEO and Founder of IS Decisions. “UserLock 13.0 is about making that reality easier to secure. Helping IT teams protect the identities they already rely on, without disrupting the systems that keep business running.This update is a direct result of our 25-year mission: to listen to the Active Directory community and deliver pragmatic security for the identity infrastructure the world runs on.”
The result is day-to-day security that’s so simple, even the C-suite could (almost) do it.
Navigation now better reflects how administrators actually work. Resources are easier to find, policies simpler to configure, and there’s less noise to monitor. All from a layout that puts the most important information front and center.
UserLock 13.0 now gives teams eyes on their Active Directory environment, directly in the console. Dedicated pages for users, groups, organizational units, and machines make it easy to recognize relationships, prevent configuration errors, and close security gaps.
Click any user, machine, group, or OU to open a detailed dashboard and view activity, policies, and filtered reports. Multiple dashboards can stay open in parallel, letting admins pivot quickly between entities during an investigation without losing context. It’s a faster, calmer way to do forensics and resolve issues.
A new step-by-step policy wizard guides rule creation with inline explanations for each option, including single sign-on (SSO). Configuration is faster, clearer, and more reliable, helping teams see what rules are in place and quickly set up new ones.
A new Admin Actions panel tracks every admin operation in real time, with full traceability for audits and troubleshooting. Administrators gain a single view of what’s happening, who initiated it, and when, for complete accountability at a glance.
Unlike many SaaS tools that force you to adapt to them, UserLock adapts to you. The new Views system lets each administrator customize what information you see across Environment, Access Policies, Activity, and Reporting. Filter, sort, and save the view that fits your workflow. Views can be shared across teams to keep everyone aligned on what matters most.
More built-in and custom reports make it easier to prove compliance with new stats, clear charts, and live data. The redesigned report scheduler also makes sharing insights effortless. Reports can now be sent as direct, secure links in email. New filters and reorganized settings make reporting faster.
UserLock SSO now validates user certificates from the organization’s trusted Certificate Authority, while UserLock Anywhere adds machine certificate authentication as a modern, secure alternative to NTLM. Together, these enhancements bring stronger zero-trust verification and future-ready protection across the on-prem and hybrid AD environment.
The new UserLock Anywhere Cloud (Relay API) extends full visibility and control to off-LAN machines. Now admins can maintain UserLock policies even without IIS or a VPN using encrypted, outbound-only communication through IS Decisions’ Azure-hosted relay. Available in beta with UserLock 13.0, UserLock Anywhere Cloud mode will continue to evolve through feedback from early adopters.
As organizations navigate hybrid identity challenges, IS Decisions remains committed to allowing teams to securely choose on-premises deployment and data sovereignty. UserLock leaves organizations in full control over authentication data, with no reliance on external cloud identity services.
This approach minimizes exposure to external threats, supports tight compliance requirements, and allows organizations to maintain autonomy over their IT environment.
“For many organizations, hybrid identity is here to stay,” said Christopher Bunn, General Director of IS Decisions. “But teams don’t need to rebuild everything to be secure. They need tools that make what they already have simpler, clearer, and more resilient.”
Founded in 2000 and headquartered in Biarritz, France, IS Decisions provides simple, effective solutions that help organizations manage and secure access to their Windows and Active Directory environments. Over 3,400 organizations across 120+ countries and every sector, including finance, government, manufacturing, healthcare, and critical infrastructure, SMBs and global enterprises, rely on IS Decisions to strengthen Active Directory security without adding complexity. With UserLock, our mission is straightforward: to protect the identity the world runs on.