Red vs. Blue: Red vs. Blue: Modern Active Directory Attacks & Defense – Sean Metcalf “@PyroTek3” This talk explores the latest Active Directory attack vectors including useful Red Team recon tactics and provides effective defensive techniques for the Blue Team.

Dive right into the technical detail describing the latest methods for gaining and maintaining administrative access in Active Directory, including some sneaky AD persistence methods. Also covered are traditional security measures that work (and some that don’t) as well as the mitigation strategies that disrupts the attacker’s preferred game-plan.

Sean Metcalf is the Chief Technology Officer at DAn Solutions, a company that provides Microsoft platform engineering and security expertise. Mr. Metcalf is one of about 100 people in the world who holds the Microsoft Certified Master Directory Services (MCM) certification. Furthermore, he assisted Microsoft in developing the Microsoft Certified Master Directory Services certification program for Windows Server 2012. åÊ Mr. Metcalf has provided Active Directory and security expertise to government, corporate, and educational entities since Active Directory was released. He currently provides security consulting services to customers with large Active Directory environments and regularly posts interesting Active Directory security information on his blog, ADSecurity.org. Follow him on Twitter @PyroTek3

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