How to detect abuse of GPO permissions
August 23, 2025
Detecting Abuse of GPO Permissions: What to Monitor, How to Investigate, How to Prevent
If an attacker can edit a GPO, they can often achieve silent, scalable code execution across fleets. This guide shows how to detect that abuse (and how to reduce your blast radius when it happens).
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Why GPO-permission abuse is high…
