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Guide Apr 18, 2026

Active Directory Hardening: A Practical Step-by-Step Guide

A practitioner's guide to hardening Active Directory — the tiered admin model, privileged access hygiene, Windows LAPS, killing legacy authentication, defending Kerberos against Kerberoasting and delegation abuse, service-account hygiene with gMSA, advanced audit policy, attack-surface reduction, and the free tools that find attack paths before attackers do.

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