August 2025 archive

The Art of the Honeypot Account: Making the Unusual Look Normal

This article was originally posted on the Trimarc Content Hub on August 6, 2020.Updated here with authentication PowerShell code on August 18, 2025. ADSecurity.org is the new home for this article and all updates will occur here. I have had the idea for a post describing how to best create a honeypot (or honeytoken) account …

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Detecting Password Spraying with Security Event Auditing

This article was originally posted on the Trimarc Content Hub on February 10, 2017. A common method attackers leverage as well as many penetration testers and Red Teamers is called “password spraying”. Password spraying is interesting because it’s automated password guessing. This automated password guessing against all users typically avoids account lockout since the logon …

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Entra & Azure Elevated Access Revisited

In early 2020, I published an article on how a Global Administrator could gain control of Azure resources, that no one would know about it, and how this access would persist even after removing them from Global Administrator. From that article: “While Azure leverages Azure Active Directory for some things, Azure AD roles don’t directly …

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