I recently published an article on the TrustedSec blog site called “Detecting Active Directory Password-Spraying with a Honeypot Account“. This article describes how to use an Active Directory honeypot account in order to detect Password Spraying. Read the article here:https://trustedsec.com/blog/detecting-password-spraying-with-a-honeypot-account
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Aug 18 2025
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 …
Jan 12 2020
What is Azure Active Directory?
Many are familiar with Active Directory, the on-premises directory and authentication system that is available with Windows Server, but exactly what is Azure Active Directory? Azure Active Directory (Azure AD or AAD) is a multi-tenant cloud directory and authentication service. Azure AD is the directory service that Office 365 (and Azure) leverages for account, groups, …
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