Building an Active Directory red team lab
Active Directory is a role within the Microsoft Windows Server operating system that enables IT administrators to centrally manage all users, devices, and policies within a Windows environment. Active Directory ensures that centralized management is available for user accounts across an entire Windows domain and that policies can be created and assigned to various user groups to ensure people have the necessary access rights to perform actions that are related to their job duties.
Active Directory is commonly found within many organizations around the world. Therefore, as an aspiring ethical hacker and penetration tester, it’s important to understand how to discover various security vulnerabilities within a Microsoft Windows domain and leverage those security flaws to compromise an organization’s Domain Controller and its systems, services, and shared resources.
Active Directory provides centralized identity management...
