Identity Security

Abuse of Active Directory Certificate Services has been on the rise since 2021, with a growing number of techniques to abuse misconfigured template or vulnerable services. These are fairly common in enterprise environments and can provide attackers with a path to easily authenticate as a domain administrator from any standard domain account.I can highly recommend the posts by Raul Carmona and colleagues on ADCS attack paths:https://www.beyondtrust.com/blog/entry/esc1-attacks https://www.beyondtrust.com/blog/entry/esc4-attacksWe also have a webinar on the topic which includes an explanation and a demo of how these attacks work:https://www.beyondtrust.com/webinars/iam-leaders-and-ad-admins-are-ad-cs-misconfigurations-and-similar-issues-giving-every-user-a-path-to-your-domain-adminA few questions for discussion:Is this an area that you are actively looking into? Do you need assistance or education in these areas to help you understand them better? Have you uncovered these vulnerabilities