by Darren Mar-Elia | Aug 10, 2016 | Security-related
I had a chance to attend my first BlackHat/Defcon conference last week in Las Vegas. I also attended the very excellent BSides conference, happening concurrently. Besides being shaken to my core from the skills demonstrated during the week :-), I got a chance to see...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Jul 10, 2018 | Security Policy
With this post and my last post, I guess I’m on a path of finding interesting ways to “break” AD. The last post related to AD denial of service and this one relates to an interesting way to get to privileged access on AD by gaining what would seem to...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Jun 22, 2017 | Security Policy, Uncategorized
Delegation–A Blessing or a Curse? I’ve been wanting to sit down and write this blog post about AD information exposure for a couple of weeks now, and am finally finding the time to do so. For those of you who follow my blog, you know that I posted nearly a...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Mar 3, 2017 | Security-related
While the title to this post may sound a bit scary or ominous, the subject of this post is definitely real. A fellow IT guy whom I’ve known for many years, alerted me to a situation he came across in an IT shop he was helping. Namely, the customer’s...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Sep 11, 2013 | Group Policy, Group Policy Design, sdm software, Tips & Tricks
A fair bit of what we do here at SDM Software is helping folks get a handle on their Group Policy environments. Using products such as our GPO Reporting Pak, we’ve had lots of customers clean up and reduce the clutter (not to mention improve desktop performance)...
