AD Infrastructure & Resilience
Technical guidance for hardening domain controllers, securing legacy protocols, protecting directory services, and improving Active Directory recovery and operational resilience.
LDAP channel binding helps prevent NTLM authentication relay attacks against LDAPS by tying authentication to the TLS session. Learn how to detect disabled channel binding, audit incompatible clients, and safely enforce it across Active Directory domain controllers.
SMBv1 lacks the signing and integrity protections built into SMBv2 and SMBv3, and it often stays enabled on domain controllers by accident. Here’s how to find it, confirm what depends on it, and turn it off without breaking anything.
The Active Directory Recycle Bin makes it easier to recover deleted users, groups, computers, and OUs while preserving important attributes and relationships. Learn why it matters, how to check whether it is enabled, and how to close this common Active Directory recovery gap.