by Darren Mar-Elia | May 7, 2021 | Active Directory
This post is a bit of a departure as I’m going to talk about Active Directory security rather than specifically about Group Policy. I was reminded recently about a feature in AD that I haven’t used in nearly 20 years. This feature is based on an area in...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Aug 3, 2020 | Security-related
The story of the Trojan Horse is well known to everyone who has taken a history class. True or not, the story goes that the Greeks, in an effort to finally sack the city of Troy, construct a giant wooden horse with some of their top soldiers hidden inside. They wheel...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Feb 22, 2019 | Security-related
If you’ve been following this blog, you know that about 2 and half years ago, I started talking about Group Policy’s precarious role in the typical enterprise’s security posture. Many, if not most, AD shops use GP to perform security hardening on...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Feb 13, 2019 | Conferences
Hey folks! Just a quick note that I’m giving a talk next month in Chicago. This is a follow-on to the Semperis Hybrid Identity Protection (HIP) Conference that I spoke at last November. This Chicago “Tech Day” event is a one-day event on March 13th...
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...