Architecture & Design

Vulnerability Scanning Tools for Active Directory Security (Practical Guide) Vulnerability scanning for Active Directory isn’t just “run a Nessus scan at the domain controllers.” AD is an identity control plane. Your biggest risks are often misconfigurations, excess privilege, weak authentication paths, and attack paths that don’t look like classic CVEs. …

Common Misconfigurations Exploited in Active Directory Attacks (and How to Fix Them) Active Directory (AD) attacks rarely start with “zero-days.” In most incidents, attackers win by chaining ordinary configuration mistakes: over-permissive delegation, weak credential hygiene, stale legacy protocols, and brittle Group Policy controls. This…

AD Honeypots and Decoy Accounts: Practical Deception for High-Signal Detection A practical guide to building high-signal deception inside Active Directory: decoy users, computers, groups, SPNs, and ACL “tripwires” that trigger alerts when an attacker enumerates, Kerberoasts, moves laterally, or attempts privilege escalation. …

Least Privilege Enforcement with Role Audits (AD, Entra ID, and Azure RBAC) How to turn “least privilege” from a slogan into a repeatable control—using role definitions, entitlement evidence, and audit-driven remediation across Active Directory, Microsoft Entra ID, and Azure. Why role audits are the fastest path to real least privilege …