PowerShell Active Directory

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). Table of contents Why GPO-permission abuse is high…

Attack Path Reduction via Group Cleanup (Active Directory) In Active Directory, groups are the hidden wiring behind most privileges. Attackers don’t need “Domain Admin” on day one—often they just need one membership chain, one nested group, or one delegated admin group that quietly grants an edge in the graph. This guide is a…

Using Audit Policies to Detect Threats Early (Active Directory) Active Directory Security • Detection Engineering • Windows Auditing Audit policies are your “early warning radar” for identity attacks—if you enable the right subcategories, collect the logs centrally, and convert high-signal events into actionable detections. …

Baselining Active Directory Against CIS Benchmarks (Practical GPO-First Guide) A “baseline” is the minimum secure configuration your environment must meet—consistently, measurably, and with controlled exceptions. CIS Benchmarks are consensus-based secure configuration recommendations for common platforms (including Windows Server), and they’re…

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 …