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Pentesting Active Directory and Windows-based Infrastructure

You're reading from   Pentesting Active Directory and Windows-based Infrastructure A comprehensive practical guide to penetration testing Microsoft infrastructure

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781804611364
Length 360 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Denis Isakov Denis Isakov
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Chapter 1: Getting the Lab Ready and Attacking Exchange Server 2. Chapter 2: Defense Evasion FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 3: Domain Reconnaissance and Discovery 4. Chapter 4: Credential Access in Domain 5. Chapter 5: Lateral Movement in Domain and Across Forests 6. Chapter 6: Domain Privilege Escalation 7. Chapter 7: Persistence on Domain Level 8. Chapter 8: Abusing Active Directory Certificate Services 9. Chapter 9: Compromising Microsoft SQL Server 10. Chapter 10: Taking Over WSUS and SCCM 11. Index 12. Other Books You May Enjoy

Defensive recommendations

Defensive recommendations are a part of the great SharpSCCM wiki. Here, we will cover the ones that are most effective but also easy to implement. I will not repeat things such as install updates, ensure that privileged accounts use strong passwords, audit activities, enforce signing if possible, and so on. Let’s look at some defensive recommendations:

  • To prevent coercion, NTLM fallback should be disabled
  • Disable NAAs in the domain and use enhanced HTTP instead
  • Use the Software Update functionality to install clients instead of Automatic site-wide client push installation
  • Clean task sequences and device collection variables from sensitive data
  • For PXE, set a strong password for media and disable F8 Debugging
  • Check service accounts to ensure the least privileges principle is applied
  • Do not run the web client service to avoid HTTP coercion
  • Enable multi-factor authentication for SMS provider calls[17]
  • Require Extended...
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