Summary

In this chapter, you learned how Active Directory is used within organizations to help their IT teams centrally manage all the users and devices within their network. You have also gained some hands-on experience and the skills to extract sensitive information from Active Directory and identify the attack paths to compromise the domain. Furthermore, you know how to perform various network-based attacks that take advantage of the trust between domain clients and the domain controller within a network.

I hope this chapter has been informative for you and is helpful in your journey as an aspiring penetration tester, learning how to simulate real-world cyberattacks to discover security vulnerabilities and perform exploitation using Kali Linux. In the next chapter, Advanced Active Directory Attacks, you will learn how to perform advanced attacks that exploit the trust on an Active Directory domain.