Know Your AD Vulnerability: CVE-2022-26923

On May 10, 2022, a vulnerability within Active Directory (AD) and Active Directory Certificate Services (AD CS) was disclosed and patched. This AD vulnerability can lead to privilege escalation. In default installations of AD CS, a low-privileged user can exploit the...

Identity Attack Watch: July 2022

Cyberattacks targeting Active Directory are on the upswing, putting pressure on AD, identity, and security teams to monitor the constantly shifting AD-focused threat landscape. To help IT pros better understand and guard against attacks involving AD, the Semperis...

Hybrid Identity Protection with Dr. Nestori Synnimaa

“Every component in your on-prem environment that is part of a hybrid [Active Directory] configuration needs to be treated as a Tier 0 server, so they need to be protected as well as your domain controllers,” explains Dr. Nestori Synnimaa, AADInternals creator and Sr...

How Cybersecurity Is Evolving from EDR to XDR to Identity

As businesses continue to embrace hybrid work and digitization, endpoint and identity are moving perpetually closer. Both professions are evolving, and to make the most of this evolution, people on both sides will need to cross the aisle. In a recent episode of the...

Purple Knight Introduces Azure AD Security Indicators

Purple Knight, the free Active Directory (AD) security assessment tool downloaded by 5,000-plus users, now enables you to identify and address security gaps across your hybrid identity environment. That’s right: The latest release of Purple Knight introduces Azure AD...

A Diamond (Ticket) in the Ruff

[Editor’s note: This blog was co-authored by Andrew Schwartz at TrustedSec.] One day, while browsing YouTube, we came across a Black Hat 2015 presentation by Tal Be’ery and Michael Cherny. In their talk and subsequent brief, Watching the Watchdog: Protecting Kerberos...