Arun Kumar

Implementing LAPS for local accounts: an expert comparison guide for Active Directory and Entra ID Local administrator accounts are both necessary and dangerous. They are the “break glass” lever for offline recovery and deep troubleshooting, but they also create one of the most reliable paths for lateral movement when passwords are static or…

Auditing failed logons and lockouts in active directory Failed logons and account lockouts are the earliest, loudest signals of identity trouble in a Windows environment. Sometimes that trouble is harmless (a user typing the wrong password). Sometimes it is operational debt (stale credentials in a scheduled task). Sometimes it is an active adversary (password…

Restricting logon to specific machines: the expert guide Restricting logon to specific machines means enforcing which Windows computers a given user may sign in to—locally or via Remote Desktop—using Active Directory controls such as userWorkstations (“Log On To…”) and computer-side User Rights Assignment policies (“Allow/Deny log on locally” and “Allow/Deny log on…

Principles from Microsoft’s Active Directory Hardening Guidance Microsoft has published years of Active Directory (AD) security guidance across documents, reference architectures, “security hardening” checklists, and the broader identity security model used for Windows, Entra ID, and hybrid environments. The specifics evolve, but the…

Leveraging AD improvements for hybrid cloud usage Hybrid identity is rarely “cloud identity plus legacy AD.” In most enterprises, Active Directory (AD DS) remains the authoritative source for many user and computer identities, authentication policies, and operational workflows—while cloud services depend on Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD) and…