Security: Auditing Active Directory Database with NtdsAudit

This time I am going to talk about a method to perform audits of the contents of the Active Directory database (NTDS.dit). The tool called NtdsAudit was created by Dionach, here I leave the link so you can see the functionality of the application: https://github.com/dionach/NtdsAudit As explained on the tool’s web page NtdsAudit is an application that helps to audit Active Directory databases. It provides some useful statistics related to accounts and passwords....

February 20, 2023 · 7 min · Jonathan Colon Feliciano

HomeLab: Active Directory Documentation using AsBuiltReport

Hello to all! Earlier I wrote about the NetApp.Ontap report that I helped develop through the AsBuildReport project created by Tim Carman @tpcarman (Here the link ). Well this time I will be talking about another report that I have been working on during these last months related to building documentation about the Active Directory (AD) infrastructure. For many years I have done several implementations and/or consultancies related to this service and I have always had the intention of creating a condensed report on how this service infrastructure was designed, which for statistical purposes runs in more than 95% of the world’s companies....

October 14, 2021 · 9 min · Jon Colon