Directory Services Protector

Seizing the Castle: A Medieval Battle Technique Workshop

The cybersecurity industry is not at a loss when it comes to cheesy castle analogies or quoting Sun Tzu whenever it gets the chance (keys to the kingdom, crown jewels, the art of war), you name it we’ve butchered it. But what if we took some time to look at the whole medieval…

The Dos and Don’ts of Recovering Active Directory from a Scorched Earth Disaster

In the age of cloud, dependency on Active Directory (AD) is rapidly growing — and so is the attack surface. The threat to AD from ransomware and wiper attacks is generally understood, but the complexity of forest recovery is not. In “the good old days,” AD recovery meant recovering AD…

Attacking & Defending Active Directory Workshop

How do you defend Active Directory, aka the “keys to the kingdom,” if you don’t know where the attacks are coming from? Hackers constantly find new ways to break into AD. And once inside, they’re increasingly adept at covering their tracks to silently create backdoors and establish persistent privileged access.…

How to Defend against DCShadow

The DCShadow attack exploits a switch in the Mimikatz utility that enables privileged users to inject malicious changes into Active Directory (AD) without detection. DCShadow takes advantage of native AD replication to avoid sending events to the AD security logs. DCShadow methodology: DCShadow empowers attackers (with admin rights) to spin…