This article is a cross-post from TrimarcSecurity.comOriginal article: https://www.trimarcsecurity.com/single-post/2019/02/12/Mitigating-Exchange-Permission-Paths-to-Domain-Admins-in-Active-Directory The Issue Recently a blog post was published by Dirk-jan Mollema titled “Abusing Exchange: One API call away from Domain Admin ” (https://dirkjanm.io/abusing-exchange-one-api-call-away-from-domain-admin/)which highlighted several issues with Exchange permissions and a chained attack which would likely result in a regular user with a mailbox being able to …
Tag: Active Directory Security
Nov 03 2016
Securing Domain Controllers to Improve Active Directory Security
Active Directory security effectively begins with ensuring Domain Controllers (DCs) are configured securely. At BlackHat USA this past Summer, I spoke about AD for the security professional and provided tips on how to best secure Active Directory. This post focuses on Domain Controller security with some cross-over into Active Directory security. The blog is called …
Jul 06 2016
DEF CON 24 (2016) Talk – Beyond the MCSE: Red Teaming Active Directory
This August at DEF CON 24, I will be speaking about Active Directory security evaluation in my talk “Beyond the MCSE: Red Teaming Active Directory”. This talk is focused on the Red side of AD security, specifically how to best evaluate the security of AD and quickly identify potential security issues. Whether you perform “Red …