Category: Mitigation

Active Directory Security Tip #16: Mitigating Kerberoast Attacks

There are two main password attacks leveraged by adversaries; one is called Password Spraying and the other is called Kerberoasting. This post focuses on identifying accounts that may be targeted for Kerberoasting and how to harden the environment against Kerberoasting.

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Microsoft EMET 5.5 Released – Benefits, New Features, Protection, Logging, & GPO Config

Microsoft recently released Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET) version 5.5 (it jumped from 5.2 to 5.5) which includes Windows 10 compatibility and better GPO support (among others). I’ve included information from a variety of Microsoft sources in this post so that others don’t have to search for the data separately. The resources/references are listed at …

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