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Last updated: April 29, 2026
Active Directory assumes a cooperative environment. Members trust each other. Domain controllers trust members. Trusts between domains assumed friendly.
Active Directory assumes a cooperative environment. Members trust each other. Domain controllers trust members. Trusts between domains assumed friendly.
Every “feature” — Kerberos delegation, ACL inheritance, group nesting — is a cooperation primitive. Each is exploitable when the cooperation assumption fails.
The mindset: AD’s features are its attack surface. Each was designed for ease, not adversarial environments.
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