by Darren Mar-Elia | Sep 5, 2023 | Tips & Tricks
I have to say that after 25 years of messing around with Group Policy, I am constantly amazed by the new things I still learn about the technology and it’s behavior. Especially when those things are substantial and weird. Such was my experience last week when a...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Jan 31, 2023 | Security-related
You may have caught the recent article about a new malware variant, called SwiftSlicer–attributed to a Russian APT group–that is making its way around Active Directory environments. There’s not a ton of details about how this malware is delivered,...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Nov 1, 2022 | Whitepaper
We’ve published a new whitepaper that describes how you can secure your Group Policy environment using the principles of Administrative Tiering. Admin Tiering lets you segregate sensitive GPOs and containers to administrators with appropriate rights to those,...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Oct 13, 2022 | Security-related
In case you missed it, there were three vulnerabilities related to GP Preferences in the latest October 2022 “Patch Tuesday”. Specifically they were: https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2022-37994...
by Darren Mar-Elia | May 13, 2022 | General Stuff
One of the annoying things about Group Policy, is that delegations to GPOs are not cleaned up when the underlying security principal (e.g. user, computer or group) is deleted in Active Directory. For example, if you create a security filter on a GPO for a particular...