by Darren Mar-Elia | Oct 1, 2018 | Whitepaper
(This article was originally written way back in the early 2000s. I’ve finally gotten around to updating it for the modern era 😊) Group Policy leverages a complex and sometimes inconsistent model when it comes to storing the settings that you specify within a Group...
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 12, 2018 | Security-related
I was motivated to write this post based on a vendor blog that I read recently, that talked about ways to maliciously perform what amounted to a denial of service attack on AD. Ostensibly the post was designed to sell software, which I don’t begrudge, but it got...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Apr 27, 2018 | Security-related
A couple of weeks ago, I gave a webinar for Semperis, on the topic of protecting AD from attackers. I presented 5 tips on the things you can do within your AD and Windows environments, to protect against “information exposure” that might allow an attacker...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Mar 22, 2018 | General, Uncategorized
Long before I got into the software business, and even during that time, I was first and foremost, an IT guy. I have spent nearly 20 years of my 30+ years in technology in IT–mostly in large organizations. Much of that time, I worked as an infrastructure...
